Senior Robot Platform Software Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

We are hiring a Robot Platform SWE

⏰ Start date: ASAP

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

🦾 Full-time (100%)

Your role

Robotics is the ultimate full-stack challenge. It combines heterogeneous compute, real-time guarantees, and AI models in a box that has to work unsupervised in the field for weeks. You will work on the backbone of our development cycle to make this a reality. You will ensure that the code runs safely, deployments are atomic, and we have the best tools to troubleshoot and roll-back when it goes wrong.

What you'll be doing

• Maintain and improve the onboard Linux stack including kernel tuning, real-time patches (PREEMPT_RT), resource isolation (cgroups), and host metric collection
• Integrate the software and hardware by ensuring that the drivers communicate seamlessly and deterministically (udp/tcp, CAN, serial)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-arch builds and secure OTA updates using Docker and Ansible
• Establish good engineering practices, ranging from hardware-in-the-loop test frameworks and memory safety checks to code guidelines

What you should have

• 3+ years in a professional SWE environment, preferably in Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace
• Strong systems programming (modern C++) and experience in Python
• Knowledge of Linux such as the networking stack, systemd, security/hardening, performance profiling
• Experience in software building (CMake, Cargo, Docker) and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform) or SW deployment (Docker, debs)
• Experience in test automation (unit tests, integration tests)
• Comfortable contributing across different domains

These skills are a plus

• Experience in Rust, ROS2, Zenoh
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and simulation-in-the-loop (SIL) testing
• Worked on integrating and debugging real hardware: sensors, actuators, motor drivers,...
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson

As the first dedicated platform engineer, 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.