Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we’re making it simpler by helping developers combine code, data, and AI to build truly intelligent, decision-making systems. Our mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page.
We created Spice.ai OSS , a portable AI database written in Rust with a unified SQL interface to query, materialize, and accelerate data from any source, co-located with machine learning models. By bringing compute, data, and models together, Spice OSS enables secure AI-Feedback-Loops (AI-Fly-Wheels) for apps and agents to learn and adapt.
We're also building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform , offering managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS along with tools for high-performance SQL, machine learning training, and inference in an interconnected AI backend-as-a-service.
At Spice AI, we hire for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence . We're looking for exceptional, top-tier engineers - A players - who are driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for AI.
We’re looking for a Principal Rust Software Engineer to lead database development in Spice.ai OSS. In this role, you’ll design and build high-performance database engine features in Spice.ai, Apache DataFusion, Arrow, Iceberg, and duckdb-rs.
If you’re passionate about open source, distributed systems, and database internals, we want to hear from you.
Who we are looking for You are an exceptional engineer.
You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology.
You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.
You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible.
You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity.
You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.
What we're looking for 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed and data systems.
A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.
Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.
In this role, you'll Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project.
Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, and data platforms.
Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences.
Your first 90-days Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project
30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward
$205,000 - $250,000 a year In addition to the base salary of up to $250,000/year, a guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year and competitive startup equity is offered for this position. The equity range for this role is 0.5% - 1.50%. About Spice AI
Founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent applications and agents that learn and adapt.
Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including Nat Friedman , Mark Russinovich , CTO of Microsoft Azure, and Thomas Dohmke , CEO of GitHub, who is also on the board.
Spice AI also has notable VC backing from Madrona Venture Group , Basis Set Ventures , Founders' Co-op , and Picus Capital .
Learn more:
- On TechCrunch and GeekWire
- About the team at spice.ai/careers

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Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we’re making it simpler by helping developers combine code, data, and AI to build truly intelligent, decision-making systems. Our mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page.

We created Spice.ai OSS , a portable AI database written in Rust with a unified SQL interface to query, materialize, and accelerate data from any source, co-located with machine learning models. By bringing compute, data, and models together, Spice OSS enables secure AI-Feedback-Loops (AI-Fly-Wheels) for apps and agents to learn and adapt.

We're also building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform , offering managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS along with tools for high-performance SQL, machine learning training, and inference in an interconnected AI backend-as-a-service.

At Spice AI, we hire for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence . We're looking for exceptional, top-tier engineers - A players - who are driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for AI.

We’re looking for a Principal Rust Software Engineer to contribute to ML, GenAI, RAG, and agent development in Spice.ai OSS. In this role, you’ll design and build high-performance AI features in Spice.ai , libraries like mistral-rs , and enterprise solutions including NVidia NIM (Spice AI was recently accepted into the NVidia Inception program ).

If you’re passionate about open source, distributed systems, RAG and AI internals, and agentic applications we want to hear from you.

Who we are looking for

You are an exceptional engineer.

You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology.

You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.

You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible.

You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job.

You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity.

You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.

What we're looking for

2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience

Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed and data systems.

A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.

Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.

Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.

In this role, you'll

Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project.

Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, and data platforms.

Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences.

Your first 90-days

Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project

30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area

60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward

$205,000 - $250,000 a year
In addition to the base salary of up to $250,000/year, a guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year and competitive startup equity is offered for this position. The equity range for this role is 0.5% - 1.50%.
About Spice AI

Founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent applications and agents that learn and adapt.

Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies including Dapr and OAM .

Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including Nat Friedman , Mark Russinovich , CTO of Microsoft Azure, and Thomas Dohmke , CEO of GitHub, who is also on the board.

Spice AI also has notable VC backing from Madrona Venture Group , Basis Set Ventures , Founders' Co-op , and Picus Capital .

Learn more:

- On TechCrunch and GeekWire

- About the team at spice.ai/careers

- The Spice.ai general availability announcement blog post

- The Spice.ai OSS project announcement blog post

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Building data and AI-driven software and agents is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, were helping developers combine code with data and machine learning (ML) to create truly intelligent, decision-making applications. Spice AI is on a mission to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. Spice AI is the creator and primary maintainer of Spice.ai OSS ; a unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data sourced from any database, data warehouse, or data lake. Spice OSS enables developers to build data-driven AI applications and agents by co-locating data with ML models to enable the AI-Feedback-Loop (AI-Fly-Wheel). Read more about the vision to enable the development of intelligent AI-driven applications . Spice AI is also building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform ; building blocks for data and AI-driven applications, including managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS. The Cloud Platform enables developers to compose high-performance SQL query, machine learning training and inferencing, in a single, interconnected AI backend-as-a-service. Spice AI hires for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence . Who we are looking for You are one of the smartest people you know. You are passionate about building amazing developer experiences. You start with a customer-obsessed product experience, and then figure out how to enable that with technology. You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone. You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask whats possible. You care about meaningful work and changing the world. Your work is more than a job. You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations you lead by creating clarity. You are passionate about high performance and have high standards. What we're looking for At least 1 year professional experience with Rust or 3 yrs professional experience in C/C++. Experience in designing, implementing, scaling and shipping production distributed and data systems. Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, and cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang. A track record of good design, architectural, engineering and product decisions. Excellent communication skills. Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running. Ideally experience contributing to open-source projects. Your responsibilities A leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project. Creating, designing, and building the distributed and data systems architecture of the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, our cloud systems, and spicerack.org. Take ownership and drive initiatives for improving the product. Your first 90-days Your first month - ramp up and contribute improvements to the Spice.ai project . 30-60 days - contribute to weekly Spice.ai releases. 60-90 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area. About Spice AI Founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent apps that learn and adapt. Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies like Dapr and OAM . Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including Nat Friedman , Chairman of GitHub, Mark Russinovich , CTO of Microsoft Azure, and Thomas Dohmke , CEO of GitHub. Spice AI also has notable VC backing from Madrona Venture Group , Basis Set Ventures , Founders' Co-op , and Picus Capital . Learn more: - On TechCrunch and GeekWire - About the team at spice.ai/careers - The Spice.ai general availability announcement blog post - The Spice.ai OSS project announcement blog post J-18808-Ljbffr

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