Rust Engineer Salary

Based on 30 Rust listings with published compensation (48 total jobs)

$268k
Average
$217k
25th %ile
$260k
Median
$302k
75th %ile

Rust engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($302k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Rust features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Rust roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($217k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 30 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 48 total open Rust roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

senior
17 jobs
$257k avg
lead
16 jobs
$310k avg
mid
10 jobs
$155k avg
principal
3 jobs
$342k avg
junior
2 jobs

Top Paying Companies for Rust

Rust Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
21 jobs
$282k avg
New York, NY
6 jobs
$249k avg
London, UK
5 jobs
$445k avg
Bangalore, India
3 jobs
Remote (US)
3 jobs
$214k avg
Mountain View, CA
2 jobs
$261k avg
Costa Mesa, CA
1 jobs
$193k avg
Paris, France
1 jobs
The Americas (North, Central, South)
1 jobs
Belgrade, Serbia
1 jobs

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Rust.

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