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