About Us

DroneSense offers a drone software platform tailored for the unique needs of the public safety market. Our comprehensive solution equips First Responders with a complete tool set that expands situational awareness and acts as a force multiplier. Our mission-critical platform solves the challenges of scale and operational deployment across an entire organization, ultimately leading to more saved lives. Drones are a game-changer for the way First Responders carry out their various missions. DroneSense is here to serve as an integral part of this evolution in public safety.

Our Culture

We are a founder-led company and our leadership team is made of experienced engineers, pilots, and entrepreneurs. Our core values are central to how we work together as a team, solve problems for our customers and make decisions. We are looking for people who see problems as opportunities, have a growth mindset, and are willing to challenge the status quo. Our team is focused on helping our customers by making their jobs easier through technology. We do this through creative problem solving and rolling up our sleeves to get the job done together. We are trying to build a diverse team and value what each individual brings to the team. We want our team members to have fun, be themselves and feel a sense of belonging at DroneSense.

We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to grow our team! In this role, you will be Using the Rust language to add new features for first responder drone pilots to control their aircraft and send telemetry and video to other pilots. This opportunity to innovate calls for a Rust developer who has strong programming fundamentals plus a proven interest in solving for high performance and high reliability situations.

Primary Responsibilities

Create features and bug fixes
Add support for new drone hardware and accessories
Follow and evolve Rust development best practices
Fly drones to test and validate your changes

Requirements

Must have 4+ years experience with Rust
At least 5+ years experience building high performance systems with Rust/C/C++/Go or similar language
Experience using concurrent processing and websockets
Ability to work well within a team but on individual projects
MAVLink experience required
Excited about working with drones, robotics, and first responders

Our Technology

Rust
MAVLink
SignalR
WebRTC
MQTT, Pipes, Shared Memory, Protobuf
GitLab CI

* DroneSense employees full time US citizens who are current residence in one of the 50 contiguous United States. Though our positions are "remote" we do not work with offshore/near shore individuals or contractors to stay in compliance with our client's requirements.

Benefits

-Competitive Base Pay

-Stock Options

-Medical, Dental, and Vision, including a medical plan with 100% employee covered premium

-Company paid Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability

-Medical FSA & Dependent Care Account

-401(k)

-Work from Home

-Paid Flexible Time Off

-Paid Sick Time

-Part 107 Pilot Training & License Paid

Senior Rust Software Engineer