Dedalus Labs
Systems Engineer
$120K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 29, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors visas for exceptional talents.
About the job
Build and operate the control plane and Rust virtual machine monitor for isolated computing environments used by AI agents.
What you'll do
- Implement services and APIs that create, schedule, and manage Machines, including durable state and recovery.
- Improve the Rust VMM and runtime, including virtualization, guest memory, devices, Linux I/O, startup, snapshots, and recovery.
- Investigate and reduce performance costs, and design secure interfaces and communication paths.
What they ask for
- Strong Linux internals knowledge and ability to investigate memory use, concurrency, syscall costs, and failure behavior.
- For control-plane work, strong service implementation in Go, Rust, or a comparable systems language; for VMM work, hands-on Rust and low-level systems experience.
- Recent hands-on work demonstrating learning, adapting, and shipping.
- Security-mindedness and clear technical communication.
Nice to have
- Depth in filesystems, storage engines, databases, or distributed systems; formal specifications, model checking, or proofs.
- GPU infrastructure experience; interest in AI infrastructure and systems research.
Pay
$120K – $250K (base salary); 0% – 1% (equity)
Tools
Linux, Go, Rust, HTTP
AI focus
Build persistent computing environments for AI agents; use modern AI coding tools to support development while testing and taking responsibility for generated code.
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