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