Special Notice:
This position is NOT contingent upon awarding of a project or needing a funding source. This is full-time employment with webAI. Travel as required (estimate 15-30%).
About Us:
At webAI 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.
About The Role:
We are looking for engineers to support webAI’s Public Sector initiatives focused on secure, distributed, and resilient AI infrastructure. Ultimately we’re looking for a Systems Engineer that knows Rust, or a Systems-ish Engineer that knows P2P very well.
If you don’t have Rust, but heavy backend systems language experience, please go check out the Peer to Peer Systems Engineer job description to see if that’s a fit. Along with Rust, this role will also interact with our other languages to integrate our distributed AI technology into complex, security sensitive networks used by government and enterprise customers. Those include Go, Swift, Python and C++, but you are not expected to have experience in these if applying for this role.
You will design and implement advanced synchronization and networking systems that enable reliable AI operations across heterogeneous environments, from edge devices to cloud isolated government systems, while upholding the highest standards of performance, reliability, and data privacy.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and integrate Rust based networking and data synchronization components with systems written in Go, Swift, Python, Java, and C++.
- Lead performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of distributed software under resource constrained and intermittent connectivity conditions.
- Ensure security first design through threat modeling, secure key management, and integration of cryptographic primitives and protocols.
- Collaborate with MLOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to deploy and integrate AI components in restricted or air gapped systems.
- Contribute to cross functional architectural design discussions and documentation for internal and external (public sector) stakeholders.
- Maintain rigorous testing, observability, and validation practices to ensure system reliability and compliance readiness.
Without P2P Experience You Will:
- Learn to architect robust data synchronization frameworks using content addressable storage, Merkle trees, CRDTs, and erasure coding
- Gain experience with data synchronization and distributed consensus techniques, such as Merkle DAGs, CRDTs, and content defined chunking.
Qualifications:
- 3+ year of Rust Experience
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
Total Rewards:
- Equity options to share in our growth; build your future as we build ours
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits package
- 401(k) with company match
- $200/month Health and Wellness Stipend
- $400/year Continuing Education Credit
- Function Health Subscription
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.
