Rust Software Engineer - Ground Control & Robotics

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

About the Role

Our client is a Swiss technology company developing advanced autonomous and drone systems for demanding industrial environments. Their software ecosystem includes onboard systems, ground-control applications, real-time telemetry, video streaming, visualization, and operator interfaces.

We are looking for a hands-on Rust Software Engineer with strong experience building desktop/UI applications, real-time software, and interactive visualization systems.

The ideal candidate has substantial professional experience with Rust and has worked on software involving ground-control stations, drones, mapping, 3D visualization, telemetry, simulation, or other complex technical user interfaces.

Deep robotics experience is helpful but not essential. Strong software engineering, UI, visualization, and real-time application experience are more important.

CONTRACT: Long term contract or EOR model

LOCATIONS: REMOTE

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and improve ground-control and operator-facing applications for autonomous and drone systems. - Build high-performance software primarily using Rust. - Develop responsive desktop GUIs and technical user interfaces for monitoring and controlling complex systems. - Implement telemetry, real-time data visualization, system status monitoring, and operator workflows. - Work with 2D/3D visualization, maps, sensor data, or other interactive graphical components. - Integrate software with drones, robotic platforms, embedded systems, and external services. - Develop real-time communication and data-streaming functionality. - Contribute to video-processing and streaming workflows. - Optimize application performance, memory usage, multithreading, latency, and responsiveness. - Contribute to software architecture and technical design decisions. - Maintain high engineering standards through testing, CI/CD, code reviews, and structured debugging.

Requirements

- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience. - Strong, recent professional experience developing production software in Rust. - Experience building desktop applications, GUIs, visualization tools, or operator-facing software. - Experience with UI frameworks such as egui, Qt, GTK, Tauri, or comparable technologies. - Experience with real-time data, telemetry, networking, streaming, or event-driven systems. - Strong understanding of multithreading, memory management, performance optimization, and asynchronous programming. - Experience working in Linux environments. - Strong software architecture and debugging skills.

Experience in one or more of the following would be particularly valuable:

- Drone ground-control software or Ground Control Stations (GCS) - UAV or autonomous-system operator interfaces - 3D visualization, mapping, GIS, or simulation software - Robotics visualization or monitoring tools - Telemetry dashboards and real-time control applications - Video streaming or processing using GStreamer - ROS2 or robotics middleware - Embedded or edge systems - C++ for performance-critical applications - MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, or similar drone technologies