Senior Robotics Engineer (Drone Port)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Robotics Engineer (Drone Port)

Description

You will design and implement robotic capabilities for fully autonomous Drone Port operation, enabling precision landing, docking, localization, and environmental awareness. The role includes developing perception algorithms, robust sensor-fusion and closed-loop control for ground-based robotic systems and UAV interactions, and building embedded software for sensor/actuator interfaces. You will integrate communication interfaces, monitoring/diagnostics and fault detection, and support hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation through lab and field/flight testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robotic capabilities for fully autonomous Drone Port operation

• Develop perception algorithms for precision landing, docking, localisation, and environmental awareness

• Design and optimise closed-loop control algorithms for ground-based robotic systems and UAV interactions

• Develop embedded software for sensors, actuators, and hardware interfaces

• Integrate cameras, ranging sensors, IMUs, encoders, and other perception sensors

• Develop robust sensor fusion algorithms for reliable operation under varying conditions

• Design and validate communication interfaces between the Drone Port, aircraft, and cloud infrastructure

• Develop software for autonomous monitoring, diagnostics, and fault detection

• Support hardware bring-up, integration, and system validation in laboratory and field environments

• Analyse test results, debug complex behaviour, and continuously improve system robustness

• Collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, and Systems Engineering across the product development lifecycle

• Support flight and field testing of Drone Port capabilities

• Contribute to software architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices

• Mentor junior engineers

Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related discipline

• Several years of professional experience developing robotic or autonomous systems

• Strong programming skills in modern C++ and Python

• Experience developing embedded software in C/C++

• Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including perception, state estimation, sensor fusion, motion planning, and feedback control

• Experience with ROS or ROS2

• Experience integrating cameras, IMUs, LiDAR, UWB, radar, or similar sensors

• Familiarity with OpenCV

• Experience implementing real-time control systems

• Experience with machine learning for robotic perception

• Experience with Linux-based embedded systems

• Familiarity with Git and modern CI/CD development workflows

• Strong systems thinking and ability to work across software, electronics, and mechanics

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Fluent English

Benefits

• Company pension scheme

• Flexible working hours

• Mobile working

• Bike leasing

• Corporate discounts

• Employee events

• Sponsored daily lunch budget

• Shuttle service from Pasing in Munich

• Diversity and inclusive workplace