Software Intern (Rust/Fullstack)

Location: On-site in Austin, TX or San Francisco, CA, United States

Compensation: $114,000–$131,000 annualized, paid hourly, plus a housing stipend

Company

Early-stage hardware startup building semiconductor fabrication equipment and software for end-to-end chip design and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Build major features for a browser-based, multiplayer platform for schematic capture, physical layout, and chip simulation.
• Develop deeply interactive, low-latency editing tools involving algorithms and computational geometry.
• Design a document model that supports diffing, merging, and real-time collaboration.
• Build synchronization infrastructure for streaming edits between clients with strong correctness and performance requirements.
• Develop GPU rendering systems that display millions of polygons smoothly in web and native environments.
• Own features across the full stack from design through shipping using Rust.

Requirements

• On-site availability in Austin or San Francisco is required.
• Strong Rust experience, or serious C++ and systems experience with the ability to go deep into Rust.
• Solid fundamentals in memory management, performance, and concurrency.
• Experience profiling and optimizing slow software, with the ability to explain the causes and improvements.
• A portfolio, including GitHub if applicable, demonstrating non-trivial software built from scratch.
• Ability to work hands-on with complex applications and learn chip design concepts.

Nice to have

• Game, engine, or real-time systems experience, including ECS, scene graphs, spatial indexing, physics engines, or low-latency input.
• Electrical engineering, analog, or digital systems knowledge.
• Experience with distributed systems, real-time systems, CRDTs, OT, WebSockets, or data pipelines.
• Experience with geometry, graph, routing, spatial data, optimization, graphics, shaders, or GPU pipelines.
• Familiarity with Bevy's ECS, wgpu, Axum, WebAssembly, PostgreSQL, or serialization formats such as Protobuf, FlatBuffers, and Cap'n Proto.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work in an ambitious early-stage hardware startup with complex software and hardware challenges.
• Housing stipend, daily lunches, dinners three times per week, and a stocked office kitchen.
• Weekly learning and development opportunities.
• Commuter benefits, including parking and late-night Uber rides from the office.
• Paid time off, holidays, sick time, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Visa sponsorship is available. Additional benefits include a 401(k), life insurance, and disability insurance.