Robotics Middleware Engineer – UAV Systems (m/w/d)

Munich (DEU)

Full-time

Permanent employee

What we offer

Work in an international, agile team creating the future of autonomous systems
Grow your career in a expanding and ambitious engineering team
Build innovative products using state-of-the-art technologies in AI, robotics, and autonomy
Benefit from a steep learning curve and continuous development
Enjoy team events and a strong, collaborative culture

Your mission

Your mission will be several parts of:

Design, build, and harden the ROS 2 middleware layer: message schemas, QoS profiles, routing, callback prioritization, dedicated executors by criticality.
Make data move reliably from sensors → fusion/perception → planning/actuation: time sync (PTP/NTP), timestamps, clean frames/TF, rosbag replay for debugging.
Realize a modular and extensible sensor I/O & fusion framework: drivers/bridges, message conversions, composable pipelines.
Integrate hardware components on Jetson/ARM: bring-up GNSS/IMU/cameras/LiDAR/radar, tune I/O buses (CSI/USB/Ethernet), manage power/thermals.
Liaise with computer-vision and acoustics experts: expose stable interfaces, define latency budgets, and service contracts (topics, rates, QoS).
Evaluate and select middleware options (DDS, transports, codecs, HW acceleration) under latency and reliability constraints.
Keep track of the ROS 2/middleware ecosystem & best practices (executors, tracing, security, observability) and drive continuous improvements.
Ensure consistently high quality of the overall detection & tracking pipeline: via end-to-end integration tests, embedded CI/CD, metrics, and alerting.

What you’ll work with

ROS 2 (rclcpp, lifecycle, rosbag2, tracing), DDS (QoS profiles), C++17/20
Jetson Orin/Xavier, CUDA/TensorRT, V4L2/GStreamer
Embedded Linux, colcon, Docker/Podman, Git (PRs/reviews), CI/CD

Your profile

University degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Math, Physics, etc...
Relevant experience with C++
- Interesting frameworks are for example: EIgen, Ceres, GTSAM
- Rust is a bonus
- Also great to have ROS(2), OpenCV

Some key points for the position we would need:
- C++
  - memory management
  - multithreading (executors, callback groups; prefer lock-free where sensible)
  - error/exception handling (contracts, retries, watchdogs)
- ROS 2
  - evaluation and use of different middlewares (CycloneDDS, Fast DDS, Connext)
  - knowledge of data transfer and callback prioritization (QoS, executors, deadlines, liveliness, intra-process)
- Knowledge of other robotics frameworks (ROS 1, DDS native or custom solution, GStreamer, LCM/LCMS, ZeroMQ, etc.)
- NVIDIA Jetson
  - memory management (CPU/GPU, pinned memory, zero-copy)
  - HW accelerators (CUDA/TensorRT/VPI — orchestrating data flows)
  - sensor acquisition interfaces (CSI/MIPI, USB3, Ethernet, CAN, SPI)

Nice to have

RT-preempt, cgroups/CPU pinning, DDS Security, GMSL/MIPI bring-up, CAN/UDP custom protocols
Exposure to PX4/ArduPilot/MAVLink for autopilot interfacing (optional)

What else

Intrinsic motivation, willing to go the extra mile, attention to detail
Outside of the box creativity, conceptional & systematic design thinking
Fluent in English or German
Nationality of a NATO member nation or close ally is a must

Über uns

Wer wir sind: ein Start-up der Verteidigungstechnologie, das sich auf Lösungen für die industrielle Bildverarbeitung spezialisiert hat. Wenn Sie eine Leidenschaft für bahnbrechende Innovationen haben und Ihre Fähigkeiten einsetzen möchten, um Lösungen der nächsten Generation zu entwickeln, ist dies eine Chance für Sie!

Was wir tun: Wir entwickeln Lösungen, die es Computern und Sensoren ermöglichen, in Teams zusammenzuarbeiten, um neue Sicherheitsherausforderungen zu bewältigen. Unsere Hauptaufgabe ist die Abwehr von KI-gestützten asymmetrischen Bedrohungen in großem Maßstab, wie z. B. Drohnenschwärme und andere UXVs.

Wie wir arbeiten: Wir setzen auf eine hybride Arbeitskultur - wir schätzen die Zusammenarbeit im Büro, ermöglichen unseren Teammitgliedern aber auch die eigenverantwortliche und selbstständige Arbeit aus der Ferne.

Wo wir sind: Mit Sitz in München, Berlin und Toulouse expandieren wir schnell in ganz Europa und planen, bald weitere Büros zu eröffnen.