CoreWeave • 📍 US Remote / East Coast •
$215k - $295k USD
Develop low-overhead Rust telemetry agents, automated topology-aware slurm/Kubernetes job placement plugins, and RDMA congestion diagnostics.
#no-std • $207k-$263k USD Base
no_std in Production Rust: Architecture & Open Roles
Bare-metal freestanding Rust for OS kernels, firmware, enclaves & zkVMs
1. Why Teams Deploy no_std
Adding `#![no_std]` to the top of a Rust crate removes the OS-dependent standard library (`std`), leaving only `core` (stack-allocated primitives, traits, slices, and atomics) and optionally `alloc`. This capability makes Rust a true C replacement for bare-metal microcontrollers (Oxide's Hubris OS), Linux kernel modules (`Rust for Linux`), eBPF probes (Aya), hardware security modules, and RISC-V zkVM guests.
2. no_std Kernel & Memory Internals
Without an operating system heap or POSIX threads, `no_std` engineers manage memory deterministically using static ring buffers (`heapless`), custom bump/slab allocators (`GlobalAlloc`), and `Embassy`, an async/await executor designed specifically for bare-metal interrupts that eliminates RTOS task-stack waste by compiling state machines into a single static allocation.
3. no_std Interview & Hiring Bar
Hardware-software co-design leaders like Oxide Computer, Anduril, Block (Bitkey firmware), and embedded security teams hire `no_std` Rust engineers fluent in MMIO registers, DMA safety, and linker scripts.
Open no_std Engineering Positions (5)
Turso • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $235k USD
Implement SQLite bytecode VDBE instructions in safe Rust, expand deterministic simulation fuzzing seeds, and reduce page-cache lock contention.
Oxide Computer Company • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$275k - $275k USD
Debug PCIe/NVMe hardware emulation inside Propolis, write deterministic `no_std` drivers in Hubris, or scale distributed rack control planes.
AWS (Serverless Compute) • 📍 US / EU Remote •
$195k - $275k USD
Optimize virtio ring buffer throughput over `io_uring`, harden guest-to-host memory isolation, and reduce microVM snapshot restore tail latency.
Grafana Labs (Beyla / Profiling) • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $235k USD
Keep eBPF instruction complexity within kernel verifier limits across Linux 5.4 to 6.12+, and minimize ring-buffer CPU overhead.