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High-Performance AI Software Development Lead

1 month ago


San Francisco, California, United States Spice AI Full time
About Us

Spice AI is a technology company creating innovative solutions to help developers build intelligent applications and agents that learn and adapt. Founded in 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, we're backed by top industry leaders and venture capital firms.

We're passionate about empowering developers with the tools and technologies needed to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Our mission is to make it simpler for developers to combine code, data, and AI to build truly intelligent, decision-making systems.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $205,000 - $250,000 per year, plus a guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000 per year and attractive startup equity opportunities.

Our equity range for this role is 0.5% - 1.50%, providing a significant opportunity for long-term growth and ownership.

Job Description

We're seeking a Principal Rust Software Engineer to contribute to our open-source project, designing and building high-performance AI features in Spice.ai, libraries like mistral-rs, and enterprise solutions including NVidia NIM.

In this role, you'll work side-by-side with our founders as a leader and outstanding contributor, taking ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences.

You'll also have the opportunity to take technical and engineering ownership of entire feature areas, proposing and executing on aligned technical strategy going forward.

Requirements
  • 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
  • Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed and data systems.
  • A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
  • Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.
  • Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.
Your First 90 Days

Your first month will be focused on ramping up and contributing meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project.

Between 30-60 days, you'll take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area.

Finally, within 60-90 days, you'll propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward.