[Hiring] Rust Engineer @Deepslate

Role Description

At Deepslate, we are building Speech to Speech Voice AI models that sound and act indistinguishably from a human. Your mission is to build and improve these systems, focusing on the inference engine and other Rust projects.

• Develop our inference engine and other core components of the model stack.
• Decide how components and services communicate and where responsibilities belong.
• Build async Rust systems that handle concurrent workloads and streaming audio with low latency.
• Find bottlenecks, understand what's causing them, and improve latency, throughput, and resource usage.
• Build software that we can test, debug, and operate reliably.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Rust, including ownership, borrowing, composition, and idiomatic Rust design patterns.
• Solid experience with async Rust and structuring concurrent applications.
• Experience building and working with microservice architectures.
• A true startup mindset, comfortable navigating early-stage codebases.
• Drive and vision to actively shape the product and take complete project ownership.

Requirements

• Knowledge of actor systems and experience using actors to structure concurrent applications.
• Experience with real-time systems, whether in embedded environments or the cloud.
• Experience with C/C++ interoperability, including generating Rust bindings with bindgen.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with CUDA or GPU computing.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Python knowledge.
• Experience with lower-level performance engineering, such as debugging memory leaks.
• German, spoken and written.

Benefits

• Technical ownership of the Rust stack, with the trust and freedom to make architectural decisions.
• True R&D freedom with time, resources, and trust to research and build technology.
• Competitive compensation, with a highly competitive salary.
• Access to the hardware and cloud infrastructure necessary for building and optimizing systems.
• Absolute flexibility with fully remote work and asynchronous communication.