# Rust Software Engineering Intern, Chip Design Tools

**Company:** [Fab2](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fab2)
**Location:** Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $114k – $131k/yr
**Skills:** Rust, C++, Webassembly, Wgpu, Webgpu, Bevy Ecs, Axum, Postgres, Concurrency, Computational Geometry, Gpu Pipelines, Crdts, WebSockets, Serialization
**Posted:** 2026-09-05

> Build full-stack chip design tools in Rust, owning features across interactive editing, collaboration, rendering, and simulation. The internship seeks strong Rust or systems experience, performance and concurrency fundamentals, and a portfolio of substantial software projects.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and ship major features across the full Rust application stack.
- Develop interactive, low-latency editing tools using algorithms and computational geometry.
- Design document models that support diffing, merging, and real-time collaboration.
- Build synchronization engines for streaming edits between clients with high bandwidth, eventual consistency, and correctness.
- Develop GPU rendering systems capable of displaying millions of polygons smoothly using spatial indexing, culling, and level of detail.
- Build interactive simulation experiences with streaming waveforms and responsive analysis.
- Contribute to WebAssembly plugin systems, scripting APIs, and fabrication integrations.
- Own features from design through shipping and maintain clean, performant code.

## Requirements
- Strong Rust experience, or serious C++/systems experience with the ability and interest to learn Rust deeply.
- Solid systems fundamentals, including memory, performance, and concurrency.
- Experience profiling and optimizing software.
- Track record of building non-trivial software from scratch and explaining it end to end.
- Portfolio required, such as a GitHub repository.

## Nice-to-haves
- Game, engine, or real-time software experience, including ECS, scene graphs, spatial indexing, physics engines, frame budgets, GUI, or low-latency input.
- Electrical engineering, analog, or digital experience.
- Experience with complex software such as Blender, Ableton, KiCad, CAD tools, DAWs, or game engines.
- Distributed or real-time systems experience, including write-ahead logs, event sourcing, replication, CRDTs, OT, WebSockets, or data pipelines.
- Geometry, graph, routing, spatial data structure, or optimization experience.
- Familiarity with Protobuf, FlatBuffers, Cap’n Proto, schema evolution, or serialization formats.
- Graphics and visualization experience, including custom rendering, shaders, GPU pipelines, WebGPU, Vulkan, or OpenGL.
- Understanding of version control internals.

## Technologies
- Bevy ECS
- wgpu
- Axum
- WebAssembly
- PostgreSQL

## Compensation and benefits
- Hourly compensation equivalent to an annualized range of **$114,000–$131,000 USD**, depending on experience and education; actual earnings vary with hours worked.
- Housing stipend.
- Daily lunches, dinners three times per week, and stocked office kitchen.
- Weekly learning and development opportunities.
- Commuter benefits, including parking and late-night rides from the office.
- Paid time off, including holidays and sick time.
- Visa sponsorship.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Life and disability insurance.

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