Skill · AI Hiring Index · as of 2026-10-05
Rust in AI job postings
8% of technical postings at the AI companies we track mention Rust (380 postings). Inference / Perf postings ask for it most: 19%.
Technical postings that mention it
8%
380 postings
Which roles ask for it
Share of each technical role family's open postings that mention Rust.
| Role family | Share, as a bar | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Inference / Perf | 19% | |
| Security | 14% | |
| Research Engineer | 10% | |
| Infra / Hardware | 10% | |
| Software Eng | 10% | |
| Safety / Policy | 6% | |
| AI / ML Engineer | 4% | |
| Research Scientist | 3% | |
| Evals / Data | 2% | |
| FDE / Applied | 1% |
Companies asking for it most
| Company | Postings | Of its technical postings |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 55 | 11% |
| Anthropic | 52 | 16% |
| xAI | 35 | 17% |
| Perplexity | 26 | 44% |
| Crusoe | 20 | 12% |
| Deepgram | 16 | 47% |
| Lovable | 14 | 48% |
| Together AI | 13 | 23% |
| CoreWeave | 12 | 7% |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 11 | 26% |
How to learn it
No pick yet — A senior software engineer usually brings this already; each role page shows how often its postings ask for it.