Senior Rust Engineer

Understanding Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; Remote; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer for remote work across the UK and Germany. You will design and implement high-performance systems for coordinating robotic swarms, processing sensor data, and enabling real-time communication.

The role requires production Rust experience (2+ years) and familiarity with Tokio or other asynchronous frameworks. A background in C/C++ or Java is a plus, with emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput architectures.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Rust (2+ years).
• Experience with Tokio or other asynchronous frameworks.
• Background in a core language (C/C++/Java) or functional languages is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and support reliable, high-performance systems for coordinating swarms and handling sensor data.
• Develop streamlined communication methods and real-time data processing tools for robotic platforms.
• Integrate backend infrastructure with robotic applications and sensor arrays.
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and dependability in distributed robotic setups.

Skills

Rust

Tokio

Asynchronous frameworks

Job description

Senior Rust Engineer

Up to 120,000

Remote (UK OR Germany)

Low Latency | Async Rust | Tokio

Drones

We have a new and exclusive partnership with one of the most exciting scale-ups in Europe, who are looking to double in size their engineering team. They have a valuation exceeding 2 billion Euros.

The company builds aerial intelligence hardware and software. They're main focus is the manufacturing of UAV's. Alongside this, they are also developing bleeding-edge software that provides actionable insights in defense, security and professional services.

The Rust Team:

This engineering team are focusing on building a greenfield command and control center, designed specifically for unmanned systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Architect, build, and support reliable, high-performance systems for coordinating swarms and handling sensor data.
• Develop streamlined communication methods and real-time data processing tools tailored for robotic platforms.
• Work hand-in-hand with multidisciplinary teams to connect backend infrastructure with robotic applications and sensor arrays.
• Enhance overall system efficiency, expandability, and dependability within distributed robotic setups.

Experience you'll need:

• Production experience with Rust, or contributions to production grade open source repos. 2+ Years.

• Experience working with Tokio, or other asynchronous frameworks such as async.std or Smol.

• Ideally a background in a core programming language such as C, C++, or Core Java. Candidates from functional backgrounds such as Scala, Erlang or Clojure are also encouraged to apply.
• Experience developing low-latency, high throughput systems.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with drones or robotics
• experience working with microcontrollers

This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most rapidly scaling companies in Europe, that are developing truly cutting edge software and hardware.