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# Rust Software Engineer

- **Company:** KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Software Quality, Code Review, Linux, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Network Programming, Strategies of Testing, Claude Code, Pytest, Integration Tests, Docker
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hiredonline.co.uk/jobs/225752993-rust-software-engineer/ko2-embedded-recruitment-solutions-ltd

## About the Role

* Significant commercial Rust experience, ideally in performance-sensitive or systems-level work
 * A deep understanding of Rust's ownership model, lifetimes and type system, and how to design clean APIs around them
 * An architectural mindset. You use traits, generics and modular crate design to build maintainable, extensible systems
 * Strong code review skills. You give thorough, constructive feedback and can spot subtle logic errors, unnecessary unsafe and design drift
 * A solid understanding of concurrency in Rust, including Send and Sync, synchronisation primitives, and data-parallel libraries such as Rayon
 * Experience writing and reviewing unsafe code responsibly, with clear safety invariants
 * Familiarity with the Rust toolchain and quality tools: Cargo, Clippy, rustfmt, Miri and sanitisers
 * Experience developing on Linux

Desirable skills

 * Commercial C++ experience, and confidence working across a mixed Rust/C++ codebase
 * Rust-C++ interoperability using tools such as cxx or bindgen
 * Python bindings with PyO3 and maturin, plus Python testing with pytest
 * Experience of AI-assisted development, such as using Claude Code and directing coding agents on architectural decisions
 * Implementing algorithms from specifications, and reasoning about their efficiency and complexity
 * Async Rust (e.g. Tokio) and network programming
 * Benchmarking and profiling with tools such as Criterion and perf
 * Docker and containerised build environments
 * Maintaining CI/CD pipelines, My client seeks to recruit 2 IT Technicians to work on site in Glasgow providing a support function to upgrade several firmware assets. You will have previous experience of working in an IT environmen…

## Description

* Design, build and maintain high-performance Rust libraries and services for cheminformatics applications
 * Implement new cheminformatics algorithms specified by the SMEs
 * Review algorithm specifications for feasibility and clarity before implementation
 * Integrate Rust components with the existing C++ codebase through safe, well-designed FFI boundaries
 * Act as a primary code reviewer, protecting the team's architectural consistency and code quality
 * Own the test strategy for your work, covering unit and integration tests, property-based tests, edge cases and regression protection
 * Maintain Cargo workspaces, build tooling and related Linux infrastructure
 * Mentor junior developers on idiomatic Rust, ownership and borrowing, clean code and architecture
 * Work with colleagues in Glasgow, Germany and France
 * Document your implementations clearly, including public API docs with rustdoc