Rust Systems Development Intern

We are looking for a technically curious Rust Systems Development Intern to assist with the development of fast, secure, memory-safe, and reliable software components.

This internship is suitable for students, recent graduates, and developers who understand basic programming concepts and want practical experience with Rust, systems programming, backend services, networking tools, command-line applications, and performance-sensitive software.

The selected intern will collaborate with systems engineers, backend developers, infrastructure team members, and quality assurance testers while learning professional software-development practices.

As a Rust Systems Development Intern, you will help build and maintain software using Rust’s ownership model, type system, memory-safety features, and concurrency capabilities.

Your work may include developing application modules, backend services, command-line tools, network utilities, data-processing components, internal tools, and performance-focused applications.

You may also assist with testing, debugging, profiling, documentation, packaging, deployment, and maintenance of Rust-based systems.

You will receive technical guidance and code-review feedback while gaining practical experience with Rust development and systems-engineering concepts.

• Develop and maintain software components using Rust.
• Implement features based on technical specifications and project requirements.
• Build command-line tools, backend services, utilities, or data-processing applications.
• Write clean, modular, reusable, and maintainable Rust code.
• Work with Rust structures, enums, traits, generics, modules, and pattern matching.
• Apply Rust ownership and borrowing concepts correctly.
• Learn and apply lifetime concepts where required.
• Assist with asynchronous and concurrent application development.
• Work with file systems, APIs, networks, and structured data.
• Create and maintain unit tests and integration tests.
• Assist with basic performance and benchmark testing.
• Identify, reproduce, investigate, and resolve software defects.
• Review compiler warnings, logs, panic messages, and error reports.
• Improve the performance and stability of existing components.
• Assist with improving memory and resource efficiency.
• Implement appropriate error handling using Rust error-management patterns.
• Research Rust libraries and recommend suitable technical solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Use Cargo to build, test, and manage Rust projects.
• Use Git for branches, commits, pull requests, and code collaboration.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Collaborate with QA testers to reproduce and resolve defects.
• Assist with software packaging, deployment, and maintenance.
• Follow secure coding and software-engineering best practices.
• Provide regular progress updates about assigned tasks.

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree, diploma, certification, or training programme in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics, or a related field.
• Basic programming knowledge in Rust or another language such as C, C++, Python, Go, or Java.
• Understanding of variables, functions, loops, conditions, and data structures.
• Basic understanding of modular or object-oriented programming concepts.
• Strong interest in Rust and systems programming.
• Basic understanding of memory, processes, files, and operating-system concepts.
• Ability to understand technical documentation and project requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn Rust ownership, borrowing, and lifetime concepts.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Ability to collaborate with developers and testers.
• Ability to organise tasks and meet agreed deadlines.
• Reliable internet connection.
• Access to a suitable development computer.
• Willingness to learn new libraries, tools, and engineering practices.

• Basic experience writing programs in Rust.
• Familiarity with Cargo and the Rust package ecosystem.
• Understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, and pattern matching.
• Familiarity with asynchronous Rust.
• Basic knowledge of Tokio or another asynchronous runtime.
• Basic knowledge of C or C++.
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Familiarity with Linux development environments.
• Basic knowledge of command-line tools and shell commands.
• Basic understanding of networking, sockets, HTTP, or TCP/IP.
• Familiarity with Serde for data serialisation and deserialisation.
• Familiarity with Axum, Actix Web, Rocket, or another Rust web framework.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs and JSON.
• Familiarity with unit testing, integration testing, and benchmarking.
• Basic experience using Git, GitHub, or GitLab.
• Familiarity with Docker or containerised applications.
• Awareness of memory safety, thread safety, and secure programming.
• Experience working on academic, personal, or open-source Rust projects.
• A GitHub profile containing Rust, C, C++, or systems-programming projects is an advantage.

• Gain practical experience developing software with Rust.
• Learn modern systems-programming practices.
• Improve your understanding of memory safety and resource management.
• Work on real tools, services, and performance-sensitive components.
• Develop stronger debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Gain practical experience with concurrency, networking, and application architecture.
• Build portfolio-ready Rust projects and code samples.
• Learn professional coding, documentation, and version-control practices.
• Gain experience working in a remote engineering environment.
• Receive an internship completion certificate after successful completion.
• Opportunity to receive a recommendation letter based on performance and contribution.
• Flexible remote working arrangement.
• Potential opportunity for an extended internship.
• Potential opportunity for future employment based on performance, availability, and organisational requirements.

• Real-world Rust and systems-development assignments.
• Practical exposure to Rust-based tools, services, and application components.
• Clearly defined tasks and technical requirements.
• Technical guidance from experienced developers.
• Code-review feedback to improve code quality and understanding.
• Access to project documentation and relevant development resources.
• Experience working with Cargo and the Rust development ecosystem.
• Exposure to professional Git and version-control workflows.
• Opportunities to work with testing, debugging, and performance analysis.
• Experience collaborating with backend, infrastructure, and QA team members.
• Learning opportunities related to memory safety, concurrency, networking, and system design.
• Remote collaboration experience using professional tools.
• Regular feedback based on contribution, technical progress, and task quality.