Rust Engineer
Full Time
On-site
$200k - 260k per year
LHi Group Ltd
Fitment
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Job Details
Skills
- Reporting
- Adobe
- API
- Technical Direction
- Lean Methodology
- Cisco
- User Experience
- Software Engineering
- Python
- Customer Facing
- MIT
- Amazon Web Services
- Dropbox
- Cryptography
- Optimization
- Screening
- Migration
- Performance Engineering
- Motivation
- Product Ownership
- Rust
- Systems Design
- Artificial Intelligence
- Leadership
- Evaluation
- Recruiting
Summary
LiteLLM - Rust Engineer (Founding Rust Engineer)
Role: Rust Engineer
Salary
Benefits
Location
Reporting Into
The Sell (Company)
Engineering Culture
The Role
Technical Requirements
Nice-to-Haves
Ideal Backgrounds
Crypto backgrounds are welcomed if candidates have strong systems and performance engineering experience.
Screening Priorities
The top priorities are:
Helpful screening questions:
Interview Process
1. LHi Recruiter Screen
2. Intro with CTO
3. Technical Interview
4. Final Onsite
Hiring Notes
Role: Rust Engineer
Salary
- Up to $260,000 base
- 0.1-0.3% equity
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee provided daily
- Onsite perks and collaborative engineering environment
Location
- Onsite - San Francisco (North Beach)
- 5 days/week in office
- ~60 hour/week culture (weekend work optional but common)
Reporting Into
- Ishaan (CTO & Co-Founder)
- Extremely high visibility role working directly with company leadership
The Sell (Company)
- LiteLLM is one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies, generating approximately $15M ARR with strong month-over-month growth.
- Trusted by companies including NVIDIA, Adobe, OpenAI, Netflix, and NASA.
- LiteLLM powers one of the world's most widely adopted AI gateways, allowing developers to seamlessly route requests across 100+ LLM providers through a single API.
- The company is making a major architectural investment by migrating its core platform from Python to Rust, creating a rare opportunity to define the technical direction of the engineering organization.
- Ideal opportunity for engineers looking for significant ownership, technical influence, and visible impact.
Engineering Culture
- Lean engineering team of approximately 6 engineers
- Mix of senior engineers from companies including Amazon, Cisco and Scale AI alongside a few junior engineers
- Fast-paced, high ownership environment
- Engineers are expected to work closely with leadership and move quickly
- Customer empathy is highly valued-engineers regularly think about user experience and product impact
- This is the company's first dedicated Rust hire, making this engineer the internal Rust subject matter expert
The Role
- Pure Individual Contributor position
- Own the migration of LiteLLM's core platform from Python to Rust
- Define Rust best practices and help establish the company's long-term Rust engineering culture
- Partner directly with the CTO on architectural decisions
- Optimize latency, throughput and overall gateway performance
- Help shape future Rust hiring as the company expands
Technical Requirements
- 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 1-3+ years of production Rust experience
- Strong systems programming fundamentals
- Experience improving latency, throughput and application performance
- Experience building scalable backend or distributed systems
- Ability to complete technical interviews and coding exercises without AI assistance
Nice-to-Haves
- Previous language migration experience (especially Go ? Rust or Python ? Rust)
- AI infrastructure experience
- Customer-facing engineering experience
- Strong academic background (CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, etc.)
- Senior or Staff-level ownership experience
Ideal Backgrounds
- Amazon
- Cloudflare
- Uber
- Dropbox
- Stripe
- Scale AI
- Perplexity
- Cognition
Crypto backgrounds are welcomed if candidates have strong systems and performance engineering experience.
Screening Priorities
The top priorities are:
- Strong Rust fundamentals
- Performance engineering (latency, throughput, systems optimization)
- Customer obsession
Helpful screening questions:
- What product have you worked on that customers loved?
- What feedback did customers have?
- Have you optimized systems for latency or throughput?
- Have you led or contributed to a language migration?
- Can you comfortably code in Rust without AI assistance?
Interview Process
1. LHi Recruiter Screen
- Background
- Rust experience
- Performance engineering
- Motivation
2. Intro with CTO
- Technical background
- Product ownership
- Culture fit
3. Technical Interview
- Rust coding exercise
- Whiteboarding
- System design
- Must complete coding without AI
4. Final Onsite
- Meet engineering team
- Leadership discussions
- Final evaluation
Hiring Notes
- Mission-critical hire
- Highest engineering priority for the company
- Looking to hire immediately
- Target start by end of July
- 24-48 hour interview turnaround
- Company expects to hire approximately 8 engineers per month
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Company Info
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