[Remote] AI Rust Engineer Remote (American or European time zones)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UMATR is partnering with a well-backed developer tools company to hire an AI Rust Engineer into their engineering team. This role focuses on building AI-native workflows for software engineers and improving how AI interacts with evolving codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design systems that let AI participate directly in real developer workflows
• Build the infrastructure that connects language models to the editor and surrounding tooling
• Develop context systems that help models reason about large, complex codebases
• Design evaluation frameworks that measure whether AI-assisted development is genuinely helping engineers
• Improve the reliability, latency, and cost efficiency of AI features in production
• Collaborate closely with editor and infrastructure engineers to get ideas shipped quickly
• Pair program with teammates to explore and refine systems together

Skills

• Hands-on experience building production systems powered by large language models
• A strong grasp of model behaviour, prompting, and evaluation
• A track record of integrating AI capabilities into real shipped software
• Solid backend or systems programming experience
• Genuine interest in developer tools and programming environments
• Experience with Rust, or a real willingness to pick it up quickly
• Strong collaboration instincts, comfortable working closely with other engineers
• You've built AI coding assistants or developer tooling before
• You have experience with, and a strong understanding of MCP
• You've designed evaluation systems for LLM-driven products
• You've worked with large codebases, compilers, or language tooling
• You've built with tool-using or agent-style models
• Production Rust experience

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