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# Rust Software Engineer

- **Company:** Fractile
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Reference Implementation, Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Data Centers, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Linux Kernel, Open Source Technology, JavaScript Pagination Plugin, Real Time Systems, Caching, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2845699639-rust-software-engineer

## About the Role

You are energised by unfamiliar problems. You research the state of the art, form your own views, and implement them. You may be a senior engineer coming from a systems language background who has built genuine Rust proficiency through open-source or personal projects, or you may have deep experience serving AI workloads at scale. Either way, you are comfortable making sense of a problem for the first time and working autonomously in areas of ambiguity. You have a solid computer science foundation and the ability to read unfamiliar code quickly, understand it, and identify where things can be better., * Strong Rust skills - or senior-level experience in a systems language (C, C++) with demonstrable Rust proficiency via open source or personal projects

 * Experience serving AI workloads (e.g. vLLM, SGLang, or Rust equivalents), OR deep systems-level experience in areas such as low-latency data movement, paging, caching, or real-time processing
 * Solid computer science fundamentals and the ability to read unfamiliar code, understand it quickly, and identify problem areas
 * Comfort working autonomously in areas of ambiguity, * Experience with AI inference frameworks or ML accelerator architectures
 * Prior startup or small-team experience
 * A portfolio of Rust projects you can share

## Description

We are building a new Rust engineering team from scratch - greenfield software, with real scope to influence architecture, engineering practices, and direction from day one. The team works in a genuinely interdisciplinary environment where software engineers shape hardware decisions and vice versa., As a Rust Engineer you will build a reference implementation of a full AI inference stack in Rust, tuned to Fractile's custom hardware, write a Linux kernel driver in Rust, and develop cloud-based tooling for data centre deployments. You will research the state of the art in AI inference, bring new ideas into the codebase, and collaborate closely with hardware engineers in a true co-design loop. You will help shape the architecture, direction, and engineering culture of a new team from the ground up.


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