Senior Platform Rust Engineer (AI)

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Company

hirify.global is building distributed AI infrastructure that enables secure, private, and scalable AI processing on consumer hardware and at the edge.

What you will do

• Design and build reliable platform capabilities shared across enterprise and consumer AI products.
• Develop backend and systems software focused on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Create stable APIs, SDKs, documentation, examples, and reference implementations for internal and external developers.
• Own features from architecture and implementation through testing, packaging, release, and production support.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for multi-platform builds, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases.
• Diagnose complex performance, concurrency, reliability, and integration issues while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Professional experience with Rust and strong systems-engineering skills, including concurrency, process boundaries, resource management, failure modes, and performance.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, developer-facing interfaces, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation.
• Experience packaging, versioning, distributing, testing, and supporting production software.
• Ability to handle ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, and release, with strong documentation and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed, peer-to-peer, offline-capable, or edge systems.
• Experience with foreign function interfaces, language bindings, and programming-language or process boundaries.
• Experience with cross-platform software, developer tools, code generators, build tooling, or release infrastructure.
• Experience with security-sensitive or privacy-preserving systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Values-driven environment centered on truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits, supplemental life insurance, and parental leave for eligible employees.
• 401(k) matching and unlimited approved paid time off.
• $200 per month health and wellness stipend and annual continuing education credit.
• $500 per year Function Health subscription for US-based employees.
• Free parking for in-office employees.