Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

Loki Robotics · Zürich, Switzerland

Full Time
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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

  • 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

  • Build classical robotics autonomy pipelines such as 3D mapping, localization, and autonomous navigation

  • 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

  • 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.

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