Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Zurich, 100%)

About the role

A robotics software engineer is needed in Zurich, Switzerland, on site (remote work not possible), full-time. The role spans the entire stack, from low-level drivers to cloud data and autonomy pipelines, and defines how developers, operators and customers interact with the product. It is the first dedicated robotics software engineer, so the person will shape the engineering culture and can either stay a generalist across all layers or specialise and lead subsystems.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the robotics stack from low-level drivers and behaviour trees to health management and software configuration
• Implement data and telemetry ingestion from the robots to the cloud
• Build internal tools such as a teleoperation interface, robot fleet management and a data dashboard
• Build classical robotics autonomy pipelines such as 3D mapping, localisation and autonomous navigation
• Drive CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks and developer tooling, establishing practices from memory safety to architectural guidelines

Required profile

• 3+ years in a professional software engineering environment, preferably in robotics, automotive or aerospace
• Embedded platforms and sensor integration experience
• Experience debugging complex issues with core dumps, debuggers (gdb) and profiling (perf, ftrace)
• Experience in test automation (unit and integration tests)

Required skills

• Strong modern C++ and Python
• Solid Linux fundamentals (systemd, time synchronisation, schedulers, TCP/UDP)
• Plus: Rust, ROS2 or Zenoh; HIL and SIL testing; NVIDIA Jetson; SLAM, pointcloud processing, control theory and computer vision