Senior Rust Systems Engineer

Special Notice: This position is NOT contingent upon awarding of a project or needing a funding source. This is full-time employment with webAI. About Us: At webAI we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation. Our mission is to build a future where a company's valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models. We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business. About The Role: We are looking for engineers to support webAI’s Public Sector initiatives focused on secure, distributed, and resilient AI infrastructure. Ultimately we’re looking for a Systems Engineer that knows Rust, or a Systems-ish Engineer that knows P2P very well. If you don’t have Rust, but heavy backend systems language experience, please go check out the Peer to Peer Systems Engineer job description to see if that’s a fit. Along with Rust, this role will also interact with our other languages to integrate our distributed AI technology into complex, security sensitive networks used by government and enterprise custom [... source excerpt omitted ...] ndidates who are not based in Austin, Texas may be asked to travel to our Austin, Texas headquarters. This role will require up to 25% travel, including occasional on-site work at customer locations to support deployment, troubleshooting, and integration of our platform within enterprise environments. Responsibilities: Develop and integrate Rust based networking and data synchronization components with systems written in Go, Swift, Python, Java, and C++. Lead performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of distributed software under resource constrained and intermittent connectivity conditions. Ensure security first design through threat modeling, secure key management, an [... source excerpt omitted ...] al (public sector) stakeholders. Maintain rigorous testing, observability, and validation practices to ensure system reliability and compliance readiness. Without P2P Experience You Will: Learn to architect robust data synchronization frameworks using content addressable storage, Merkle trees, CRDTs, and erasure coding Gain experience with data synchronization and distributed consensus techniques, such as Merkle DAGs, CRDTs, and content defined chunking. Qualifications: 3+ year of Rust Experience Active US Security clearance Why webAI? At webAI we do our best to live out our core values we have put in place as the foundation on which we operate as a team. We are looking