Salary: £60,000 - 65,000 per year Requirements:

Significant commercial Rust experience, ideally in performance-sensitive or systems-level work
Deep understanding of Rusts ownership model, lifetimes, and type system, and ability to design clean APIs around them
Architectural mindset, using traits, generics, and modular crate design to build maintainable, extensible systems
Strong code review skills, including the ability to provide constructive feedback and identify subtle logic errors, unnecessary unsafe code, and design drift
Solid understanding of Rust concurrency, including Send and Sync, synchronisation primitives, and data-parallel libraries such as Rayon
Experience writing and reviewing unsafe code responsibly, with clear safety invariants
Familiarity with the Rust toolchain and quality tools, including Cargo, Clippy, rustfmt, Miri, and sanitisers
Experience developing on Linux
Desirable: commercial C++ experience and confidence working across a mixed Rust/C++ codebase
Desirable: Rust-C++ interoperability using tools such as cxx or bindgen
Desirable: Python bindings with PyO3 and maturin, and Python testing with pytest
Desirable: experience with AI-assisted development, such as using Claude Code and directing coding agents on architectural decisions
Desirable: experience implementing algorithms from specifications and reasoning about their efficiency and complexity
Desirable: async Rust, such as Tokio, and network programming
Desirable: benchmarking and profiling with tools such as Criterion and perf
Desirable: Docker and containerised build environments
Desirable: maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain high-performance Rust libraries and services for cheminformatics applications
Implement cheminformatics algorithms specified by subject-matter experts
Review algorithm specifications for feasibility and clarity before implementation
Integrate Rust components with the existing C++ codebase through safe, well-designed FFI boundaries
Act as a primary code reviewer, supporting architectural consistency and code quality
Own the test strategy for your work, including unit and integration tests, property-based tests, edge cases, and regression protection
Maintain Cargo workspaces, build tooling, and related Linux infrastructure
Mentor junior developers on idiomatic Rust, ownership and borrowing, clean code, and architecture
Collaborate with colleagues in Glasgow, Germany, and France
Clearly document implementations, including public API documentation with rustdoc

Technologies:

AI
API
CI/CD
Claude Code
Docker
Linux
Network
Python
Rust
pytest
Embedded

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We develop advanced cheminformatics software that helps scientists understand and work with chemical data. Were looking for an experienced Rust Software Engineer to join our small, growing Glasgow team and build robust, high-performance components that turn scientific algorithms into safe, efficient, well-tested code, integrated with our established C++ codebase. Were an international, close-knit company whose Glasgow team works with colleagues in small offices in Germany and France. This senior role offers meaningful scientific software work and the opportunity to influence our architecture, code quality, and the teams development. The position is based in Glasgow with hybrid working split 50/50 between home and office. Salary is up to £65,000, depending on experience.

last updated 44 week of 2026

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