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title: 'Senior Rust Platform Engineer at webAI'
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# Senior Rust Platform Engineer at webAI

- **Company:** webAI
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/webai/60d4e69d-154f-481f-a65d-c6f8cc5ae23b

## Job description

About Us:

webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and 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. We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI.

## ABOUT THE ROLE:

webAI is seeking a Senior Platform Rust Engineer to build the core software platform that supports our enterprise and consumer products.

You will design and implement reusable platform capabilities and expose them through stable APIs and SDKs. Your work will span systems architecture, backend development, automated delivery, documentation, and developer experience.

This role is suited to an engineer who can move between low-level technical concerns and clear, practical interfaces for other developers. You will own complex work from design through release while helping shape the boundaries and evolution of the webAI platform.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Design and build reliable platform capabilities shared across webAI products.
- Develop backend and systems software with a focus on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
- Create clear, stable APIs and SDKs for internal and external developers.
- Own features from architecture and implementation through testing, packaging, release, and production support.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for multi-platform builds, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases.
- Establish sound practices for API evolution, versioning, compatibility, and migration.
- Write documentation, examples, and reference implementations alongside the APIs they explain.
- Diagnose performance, concurrency, reliability, and integration problems across complex systems.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn product needs into reusable platform capabilities.
- Improve developer tooling and workflows as the platform and SDK ecosystem grow.

## REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, or developer-facing platform interfaces.
- Strong systems-engineering skills, including experience with concurrency, process boundaries, resource management, failure modes, and performance.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
- Experience packaging, versioning, and distributing production software.
- Ability to write maintainable code, effective tests, clear technical documentation, and useful examples.
- Experience diagnosing complex integration, reliability, and performance problems.
- Proven ability to take complex or ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, and release.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

## PREFERRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

- Professional experience with Rust.
- Experience building distributed, peer-to-peer, offline-capable, or edge systems.
- Experience designing or integrating foreign function interfaces (FFI) and language bindings.
- Experience working across programming-language and process boundaries.
- Familiarity with semantic versioning, compatibility policies, and API migration strategies.
- Experience building cross-platform software for desktop, mobile, server, or embedded environments.
- Experience creating developer tools, code generators, build tooling, or release infrastructure.
- Experience with security-sensitive or privacy-preserving systems.

We at webAI are committed to living out the core values we have put in place as the foundation on which we operate as a team. We seek individuals who exemplify the following:

- Truth - Emphasizing transparency and honesty in every interaction and decision.
- Ownership - Taking full responsibility for one’s actions and decisions, demonstrating commitment to the success of our clients.
- Tenacity - Persisting in the face of challenges and setbacks, continually striving for excellence and improvement.
- Humility - Maintaining a respectful and learning-oriented mindset, acknowledging the strengths and contributions of others.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package.
- 401k Match
- $200/mos Health and Wellness Stipend
- $400/year Continuing Education Credit
- $500/year Function Health subscription (US-based only)
- Free parking, for in-office employees
- Unlimited Approved PTO
- Parental Leave for Eligible Employees
- Supplemental Life Insurance

webAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, it is the policy of webAI to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works.

## About webAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: webAI provides an end-to-end platform for building, deploying, and operating custom AI on local infrastructure, ensuring data sovereignty and low latency.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A‑II, $60M total raised)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (source: webai.com) / 2020 (source: CB Insights)
- **Founders**: David Stout (CEO), Ethan Baird (Chief Research Officer), Tyler Mauer (Chief Product Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, edge computing
- Target customers: B2B – large enterprises and public‑sector organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, aviation, retail, and defense
- Mission or purpose statement: “AI should be specialized, sovereign, efficient, and sustainable. It should solve real problems, not just burn more compute.” (source: [webai.com/about](https://www.webai.com/about))

## Products & Services
- **Navigator**: Build, train, and deploy custom AI models on local infrastructure with full transparency and control. (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))
- **Companion**: An on‑device assistant that connects employees to private AI, tailored to industry workflows (e.g., aviation, manufacturing). (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))
- **Runtime**: Orchestrates distributed AI workloads across heterogeneous hardware, scaling from a single device to entire clusters. (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))
- **webFrame**: Delivers optimized inference and training with adaptive quantization (“Entropy‑Weighted Quantization”) achieving near 99.5% accuracy. (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))
- **Network**: Connects every model, dataset, and device through a secure, local fabric for high‑speed collaboration without the cloud. (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))
- **CLI**: Full command‑line control for developers to build, extend, and manage AI environments at scale. (source: [webai.com](https://www.webai.com))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data sovereignty**: Full ownership of AI models and data; models run on local infrastructure, not in the cloud.
- **Low latency & resilience**: Edge deployments enable real‑time inference without cloud dependency; works offline.
- **Proprietary optimization**: Entropy‑Weighted Quantization compresses models while maintaining ~99.5% accuracy.
- **Full‑stack platform**: Covers development (Navigator), deployment (Runtime/CLI), inference (webFrame), and collaboration (Network).

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Scaling custom, sovereign AI into regulated industries (healthcare, finance, defense); building the “operating system of the future” for edge intelligence; achieving 2030 vision of billions of specialized models embedded in everyday systems. (source: [webai.com/about](https://www.webai.com/about))
- Growth direction: Public sector partnerships (President of Public Sector Dr. Jason Rathje); vertical solutions for aviation, manufacturing, and retail.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Core beliefs include ownership, truth, tenacity, humility, and the conviction that AI must be local and accessible.
- **Work model**: Flexible work environment with a strong bias toward work‑life balance; “Unlimited PTO.”
- **Perks** (source: [webai.com/careers](https://www.webai.com/careers)):
  - Comprehensive health coverage for body and mind
  - Parental leave and fertility support
  - 401(k) with company contribution
  - Learning stipend for professional development
  - Equity options
- **Engineering culture**: Developer‑first (CLI, Runtime) with focus on solving complex distributed‑systems and ML challenges; autonomy to shape the platform.

## Sources
1. [webai.com](https://www.webai.com)
2. [webai.com/about](https://www.webai.com/about)
3. [webai.com/careers](https://www.webai.com/careers)
4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/webai)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/webai-official)

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