Staff Rust Developer

At.txt, our mission is to make AI reliable. We are the authors of outlines and outlines-core, both leading open source libraries (+10k ️) for structured generation.

We raised **$11.9 million**, which is fueling the efforts of our global, fully remote team to create software that goes beyond simple conversation.

We support the most popular forms of structured generation through our existing products like dotjson and dotlambda, and are always working on the next innovation.

Read more about.txt and our technology on our blog.

**The Role**:
As a Rust Developer at.txt, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the core of our technology. You will be immersed in a fast-paced environment where your work directly impacts the capabilities, efficiency, and scalability of our products. Your expertise in Rust and high-performance software development will be central to building robust approaches, solving complex problems, and driving innovation. We are looking for a person with a passion for coding, values clear and concise communication, and a dedication to learning and improvement.

**What You Will Do**:

- ** Project Leadership**: Initiate and drive the development of mission-critical Rust projects from conception through deployment.
- ** Performance Engineering**: Write and optimize parsing code with a strong emphasis on performance, supported by automated benchmarking.
- ** Data Structures & Algorithms**: Ability to design, implement, and readily debug formal grammars, efficient parsers, standard and non-standard automata, and general text-based indexing/search.
- ** Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Work with other teams to integration their work into production-ready Rust.
- ** Tooling & CI/CD**: Utilize advanced profiling, debugging, and continuous integration tools to maintain and enhance code quality in non-trivial and consistent ways.

**About You**:

- ** Proven Rust Experience**: Demonstrated ability to lead and contribute to sophisticated, collaborative Rust projects.
- ** Professional Development Skills**: A track record of developing well-tested, high-performance software.
- ** Tooling Expertise**: Expertise with code profiling and debugging. Experience with automated workflows in CI.
- ** Multi-language Proficiency**: Ability to learn and/or work with the following technologies: CUDA, C/C++, Rust/Python bindings.
- ** A Collaborative Mindset**: Excellent communication skills and a proactive approach, ideally suited for an early-stage startup culture.

**Why You Should Join Us**:
**Cutting-edge technology**

Structured generation is still a nascent technology. Innovation is not the exception, it’s the rule.

**Work-life balance**

We don’t expect you to spend 80 hours per week at your desk, and we won’t either. We have lives outside of work, and want you too as well. Sometimes we will all need to be all-in, but it will be the exception rather than the norm.

**Remote first**

Work from anywhere in the world. We value both written communication and regular, real-time communication (especially Slack huddles and how they encourage organic, real-time collaboration).

**Competitive compensation and benefits**

We pay market rate (adjusting for seed-stage startup) + equity options, offer health, dental, and vision insurance, and have a 401k (US Only). We’ll get you a GPU if you don’t have one already.

**Location**:
.txt is a fully remote company with the majority of the team in the US and EU.

To facilitate real-time collaboration, we require team members to be available, on a daily basis, for at least 3 hours of overlap with morning New York City (Eastern Time Zone) business hours, 8am - 1pm.

**Applying**:
Please provide a **1-page** resume in English.

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K