Principal Rust Software Engineer, Spice AI
Artificial Intelligence
$205-250k
+ A guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year + 0.5% - 1.50% equity
AI app building service for developers
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AI app building service for developers
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-250k
+ A guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year + 0.5% - 1.50% equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make creating intelligent applications as easy as building a modern website.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about open source, distributed systems, RAG and AI internals, and agentic applications we want to hear from you
- You are an exceptional engineer
- You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology
- You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone
- You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible
- You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity
- You are passionate about high performance and have high standards
- 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
- Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed and data systems
- A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running
- Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects
- Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Rust Software Engineer to contribute to ML, GenAI, RAG, and agent development in Spice.ai OSS
- In this role, you’ll design and build high-performance AI features in Spice.ai, libraries like mistral-rs, and enterprise solutions including NVidia NIM (Spice AI was recently accepted into the NVidia Inception program)
- Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project
- Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, and data platforms
- Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences
- Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project
- 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
- 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward
Our take
Integrating AI and machine learning into applications remains tricky for developers. In spite of remarkable developments in both fields, a general skills gap means they’re not broadly deployed in the design of intelligent software. This looks likely to become a real pain point going forward, as demand for truly intelligent systems is on the rise - which is why Spice AI is developing a platform to help remedy this.
The company's platform consists of an open source decision engine, and pooled ‘ML-ready’ data, which in sum allow professional developers to more easily build machine learning and AI into their software. The platform also comes with ready-made ML building blocks available through Spicerack.
Funding for Spice AI comes from impressive players, like senior executives at HitHub and Microsoft Azure, as well as major VC firms like Madrona Venture Group and Founders’ Co-Op. This indicates strong confidence in the company's mission to help the AI software market reach its anticipated multi-billion dollar stature over the years ahead.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$13.5m
SEED
Oct 2021
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to face and overcome challenging problems at the intersection of web3 and AI, and help to shape the future of the industry
- Work side-by-side with technical founders, including our CEO, in a team with over 25 years of experience building infrastructure and developer experiences at Azure, Google, AWS, and GitHub
Company values
- Lead the Way: We continuously make it simpler for our customers to build data and AI-driven apps, helping them easily overcome web3 complexity. Leading the way requires each of us to be a leader – to take ownership, provide clarity, and progress towards realizing our vision
- Work as One: Spice AI is one team collectively building towards a shared vision. We trust, respect, and encourage each other through every challenge, and we celebrate every success together. We enable the community to thrive, empowering others to build, share, discover, learn, and develop next-generation solutions. As one, we unlock the greatest possibilities
- Empowering Developers: Dedicated to delivering the greatest developer experiences imaginable, we make our customers fall in love with our technology and tools. We enable them to build with ease and unlock ideas that push possibilities and enrich the lives of everyone, everywhere
- Simplicity is Perfection: We deliver the simplest solutions possible. Simple means less pain for developers, lower costs, and less labor. Simple gives our customers more time to do what they love and to focus on their objectives. Simplicity is perfection
Company HQ
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Luke Kim
(CEO)Previously worked as a Tax Accountant at Baines Pendal & Co, alongside consulting with Tidesoft on IT and software engineering. In total has also spent well over a decade in various managerial roles at Microsoft.
Phillip LeBlanc
(CTO)Worked in various senior software engineer roles at Microsoft, before taking up a similar role at GitHub.
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