Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

We are hiring a Robotics SWE

⏰ Start date: ASAP

📍Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible)

🦾 Full-time (100%)

💼 Your role

Deploying robots means more than training the latest policy. As a robotics SWE, you will work across the stack and define how developers, operators, and customers interact with our product. You know that a hardware abstraction layer and subsystem APIs are the foundation to a system in which a growing team of engineers can contribute without slowing down and that doesn't break when hardware changes. You value delivering a polished product just as much as building a reliable, maintainable system.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop the robotics stack from low-level drivers and behavior trees to health management and software configuration

• Contribute to a low-latency video streaming pipeline, covering everything from video encoding to network transport

• Implement data and telemetry ingestion from the robots to the cloud

• Build internal tools such as a teleoperation interface, robot fleet management, and data dashboard

• Drive CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, and developer tooling. You will establish practices ranging from memory safety to architectural guidelines

🤖 You

What you should have:

• 3+ years in a professional SWE environment, preferably in Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace

• Strong modern C++ experience and experience in Python

• Solid fundamentals of Linux such as systemd, time synchronization, schedulers and networking fundamentals (TCP/UDP)

• Experience in debugging complex issues using core dumps, debuggers (gdb), and application profiling (perf, ftrace)

• Experience in test automation (unit tests, integration tests)

• Worked on embedded platforms and sensor integration

These skills are a plus:

• Experience in Rust, ROS2, or Zenoh

• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and simulation-in-the-loop (SIL) testing

• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson

• Hands-on experience with streaming protocols (WebRTC/RT(C)P), media frameworks (gstreamer), and networking technologies (LTE/5G, WiFi)

• Experience in common robotics algorithms (SLAM, pointcloud processing, control theory, computer vision)

As the first dedicated robotics SWE, you will have a massive impact on our engineering culture. As the team grows, you can remain a high-impact generalist and work across all layers of abstraction or specialize and lead individual subsystems.

Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value engineers who care about building great products and can learn to get things working. Just give it a go and apply.