Principal Rust Software Engineer, Spice AI

Artificial Intelligence

$205-250k

+ A guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year + 0.5% - 1.50% equity

C++

Rust

Golang

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Open-source data platform for AI context

Job no longer available

Open-source data platform for AI context

1-20 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningAutomation

Job no longer available

$205-250k

+ A guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year + 0.5% - 1.50% equity

C++

Rust

Golang

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

1-20 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningAutomation

Company mission

To help every developer leverage the latest technology and infrastructure to build the next generation of applications.

Job

Company

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. In short, this allows professional developers to 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 GitHub 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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Sep 2022

$13.5m

SEED

Oct 2021

$1m

SEED

Total funding: $14.5m

Company HQ

Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

Leadership

Luke Kim

(Co-Founder & 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

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Prior to co-founding Spice AI in 2021, Philip was a Senior Software Engineering Manager at GitHub. Before that, they spent over 8 years at Microsoft in various Software Engineering roles.

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