Top 10 highest paying companies that use Rust

$130K-350K

Jeff, cofounder of Exa.ai here. LLMs represent a brand new opportunity to organize humanity's knowledge, in a way that hasn't been done before. We're an AI research lab focused on AI-powered search algorithms (using embeddings), currently applied to vast swaths of the web (we make our money as a search API). We're hiring pretty broadly across engineering - AI research, high performance Rust (e.g., we build an in-house vector DB), and full stack. If the mission of organizing the Internet motivates you, it's a good fit :)

Salary: $150k-$300k + equity

Cordial is the next-generation messaging and data automation platform, built on real-time data. We empower brands to create rich personalized experiences across multiple message channels and simplify data management for marketers. We're a true next generation technology platform, leveraging AI/ML and solving truly interesting problems while processing many terabytes of data per day. Our stack includes a lot of React, PHP 8/Laravel, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, as well as Python, Rust, and IaC; and we work with some of the biggest names in commerce.

200-300k, bonus scheme with reinvestment in the fund, 1-3% options with 4y vesting

We apply ML to algotrading. We plan to use the proceeds to fund a fundamental AI research lab. Our primary goal is making progress toward AGI. Over the last two years, we turned 5 digits into 9 digits, trading a volume of around 1-4B per day. We operate as a prop trading firm of 7 people, we are restructuring our operations and moving to Zug. The short term priorities are growing the trading team and starting the research operation.

$200-300k base + up to 1% equity + benefits

TensorZero is an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM applications. It unifies an LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation.

$180,000-$300,000 + Equity + Benefits

Ensoul's mission is to accelerate robotics research. We're a team of frontier-lab scientists and roboticists working to accelerate robotics research and unlock The Great Robotics Buildout. Our customer is the robotics researcher.

Base range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD.

I'm the hiring manager for this position. Come build the best Postgres product on the planet with super talented folks, very high autonomy, tier-zero databases for some of the biggest and fastest growing data sets. Apply at https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4251150009. Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn or Bluesky if you'd like to talk more about the role. Tell me why Postgres extensions are both great and terrible.

$ 195 - 275k

Provable is on a mission to make zero-knowledge proof technology accessible to the masses. Most demand for proof generation today exists in the web3 world. Help us expand by making this frontier technology easy to use, reducing fraud in all markets through improved verifiability. We're a Series B company and have raised $228M in funding (Softbank, Kora, a16z). Our engineering team consists of 20 high-agency product-oriented engineers. We're actively hiring for Senior/Staff Level Engineers in San Francisco.

Head of Engineering & Infrastructure: $182k - $272k USD. Senior DevOps Engineer: $115k - $180k USD. Benefits: paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.

Hiring for two roles: Head of Engineering & Infrastructure (full ownership of engineering and infrastructure teams, ensure performance and reliability for 12M+ members) and Senior DevOps Engineer (implement infrastructure upgrades, DB tuning, Kubernetes/Helm orchestration, monitoring, security, maintain Rails monolith, CI/CD, participate in on-call rotation and automate DevOps tasks).

$215k–$265k + equity

Apollo Research is a leading AI Safety org. Our goal is to understand and evaluate scheming and to prevent catastrophic harms that scheming AI might cause. We build tools to make the deployment of powerful AI systems safer. You’d build the infrastructure (IaC, networking, observability) Apollo depends on, decide the controls that keep pre-release models safe and have a direct impact on our relationships with frontier labs. We’re looking for 7+ years infra/platform/DevOps, multi-account cloud and IaC depth, and have built a platform from scratch. If you’ve done this at a high-growth startup, owned infra at a high-performing org, or built services real users depended on, you’re likely a good fit. Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/apolloresearch/28c2a9e5-d018-4cc0-a191-56bc384009e8

$230K-$260K + equity

We’re building the trust layer for AI in high-stakes industries. LLM orchestrates (decides what data to gather, what to compute, how to structure output), but the model never touches the data itself. Every actual value flows through deterministic code pipelines with provenance metadata back to source. Verification loops cross-check outputs before users see them. What you’d build: Source-explorer UI that traces any value back to its exact origin in the original document; extraction pipeline for a data source we don’t yet handle, with provenance and verification from day one; agent orchestrator that handles partial failures so a bad extraction from one source doesn’t block parallel work; verification rules that cross-check values across multiple sources and surface conflicts with provenance on both sides. Stack: Rust backend (orchestration, extraction, computation), TypeScript/React frontend, PostgreSQL, AWS. Model-agnostic, currently Claude + GPT. Looking for 5 years production experience, strong in TypeScript/React, comfortable in backend work. Distributed systems basics: concurrency, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency. In-office NYC.