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# Rust Engineer

- **Company:** Lhi Group Ltd
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Performance Management, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, System Programming, AI Infrastructure, Rust (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Backend, Low Latency, Virtual Agents, Cisco
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/606804bb-b2d6-4745-9d8b-4baca779d559

## About the Role

* 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience
 * 1-3+ years of production Rust experience
 * Strong systems programming fundamentals
 * Experience improving latency, throughput and application performance
 * Experience building scalable backend or distributed systems
 * Ability to complete technical interviews and coding exercises without AI assistance

Nice-to-Haves

 * Previous language migration experience (especially Go ? Rust or Python ? Rust)
 * AI infrastructure experience
 * Customer-facing engineering experience
 * Strong academic background (CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, etc.)
 * Senior or Staff-level ownership experience, * Rust experience
 * Performance engineering
 * Motivation

 2. Intro with CTO
 * Technical background
 * Product ownership
 * Culture fit

 3. Technical Interview
 * Rust coding exercise
 * Whiteboarding
 * System design
 * Must complete coding without AI

 4. Final Onsite
 * Meet engineering team
 * Leadership discussions
 * Final evaluation

## Description

* LiteLLM powers one of the world's most widely adopted AI gateways, allowing developers to seamlessly route requests across 100+ LLM providers through a single API.
 * The company is making a major architectural investment by migrating its core platform from Python to Rust, creating a rare opportunity to define the technical direction of the engineering organization.
 * Ideal opportunity for engineers looking for significant ownership, technical influence, and visible impact.

Engineering Culture

 * Lean engineering team of approximately 6 engineers
 * Mix of senior engineers from companies including Amazon, Cisco and Scale AI alongside a few junior engineers
 * Fast-paced, high ownership environment
 * Engineers are expected to work closely with leadership and move quickly
 * Customer empathy is highly valued-engineers regularly think about user experience and product impact
 * This is the company's first dedicated Rust hire, making this engineer the internal Rust subject matter expert

The Role

 * Pure Individual Contributor position
 * Own the migration of LiteLLM's core platform from Python to Rust
 * Define Rust best practices and help establish the company's long-term Rust engineering culture
 * Partner directly with the CTO on architectural decisions
 * Optimize latency, throughput and overall gateway performance
 * Help shape future Rust hiring as the company expands


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