Software Robotics Engineer - Navigation (m/f/d)

Description

The company builds robots and needs a navigation engineer to improve how they localize, plan, move and recover in the field.

The role suits someone who works independently in an international, open team with flat hierarchies and a start-up feel.

The team values results, wellbeing, personal growth, trust and acting as one team.

Responsibilities

• Improve LiDAR-based localization and SLAM so robots estimate their pose reliably.
• Build global and local planners that generate feasible trajectories and track them.
• Create behavior-tree navigation logic covering replanning, recovery and safety handling.
• Write real-time capable, multi-threaded C++ and ROS 2 code for robots in production.
• Verify features with automated tests in simulation and with hands-on tests on hardware.
• Trace field issues to their root cause across the whole navigation stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in software engineering, computer engineering, robotics or a related field.
• 3+ years developing navigation software for wheeled mobile robots in real-world or industrial settings.
• Proficient in C++17 or newer with a solid grasp of object-oriented design.
• Hands-on work with ROS 2, ideally Nav2 or a similar navigation framework, including TF, costmaps and behavior trees.
• Proven experience in at least two of: localization and lifelong SLAM (scan matching, particle filters, pose graph optimization); path planning (graph search, lattice planners, trajectory optimization); motion control (MPC, trajectory tracking, sampling-based local planners); behavior and decision-making (behavior trees, state machines, recovery strategies).
• Experience with Linux, Git-based collaboration, and building and deploying with Docker.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Conditions

Preferred: a strong grasp of mobile robot kinematics, dynamics, control theory and probabilistic state estimation.

Preferred: experience with differential-drive and omnidirectional robot platforms.

Preferred: experience building CI/CD pipelines for robotics software with automated testing and performance benchmarking.

Preferred: experience with profiling and tracing tools.

Hybrid working model.

Office is reachable by public transport, bike and car, with many catering options nearby.

Benefits

• 30 vacation days per year.
• Above-average pay plus a bonus scheme.
• Annual personal development budget.
• Corporate benefits and a company pension scheme.
• Regular team events.
• Varied, responsible tasks you handle on your own.