Senior UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Software
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Undisclosed test site 35km from Munich
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Most importantly, you are structured, fast-moving, and mission-driven. You do not wait for perfect information. You create clarity, iterate fast, and prefer finding and fixing root causes over applyin
- You hold a B.Sc., M.Sc. PhD, technical apprenticeship, military technical training, or equivalent practical background in Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Emb
- You bring hands-on experience integrating, testing, operating, or troubleshooting software on complex robotic, UAV, embedded, automotive, industrial automation, or defence systems.
- You are at home on Linux: command line, Bash and Python scripting, Docker, Git, systemd, device and network configuration, and reading logs from several components at once.
- You have worked with robotics middleware and flight controllers: ROS2 or similar, MAVLink, PX4 or ArduPilot, QGroundControl or Mission Planner, and you can read a flight log.
- You can understand and modify C++ and Python code in a larger codebase, reproduce a bug, and hand over a clean fix or a clean report. You do not need to be the author of the algorithms, but you need t
- You are not afraid of real hardware and field constraints. You can flash a device, swap a cable, check a connector, use a multimeter or serial console, and stay systematic when the problem is messy.
- You enjoy working directly with partners, operators, and end users. You can explain technical problems clearly, build trust in stressful situations, and represent SE3 professionally outside the lab.
- You are proactive, hands-on, and willing to travel for field tests, partner demonstrations, exercises, and deployments across Europe and other strategic markets.
- You speak fluent English; German is a strong plus. A driving license is required. Given the nature of SE3's work in the defence sector, candidates must be eligible to work on defence-related projects
Full description
🚀 Join SE3 Labs as Senior UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Software
Be the person who makes advanced autonomous systems work in the real world. Move across the full stack: drones, sensors, calibration, autonomy software, perception, networking, payloads, field operations, and partner environments. When the system is not mission-ready, you create clarity, find the root cause, and help make it robust.
About SE3
SE3 Labs is building Spatial AI by combining 3D computer vision with large language models. We believe the ability to reason about and act within physical space is foundational to unlocking the next generation of automation, from construction to smart infrastructure, and ultimately, defence.
Now, we’re bringing Spatial AI into the sky through high-performance UAVs that can perceive, localize, coordinate, and act in the real world. This requires more than strong algorithms and good hardware. It requires systems that can be configured, calibrated, tested, deployed, demonstrated, debugged, and improved under real field conditions.
We’re looking for a hands-on engineer who wants to work close to the product, close to the field, and close to the full autonomy stack. Someone who is not limited to one layer, but follows the problem wherever it leads.
About the Role
As Senior UAV / RoboticsIntegration Field Engineer - Software, you own the last mile between SE3's software team and real-world use. You bring our navigation and perception stack onto UAVs, payloads, and onboard compute, connect it to flight controllers, radios, ground stations, and operator tools, and make the result ready to fly, test, demonstrate, and deploy.
This is a highly hands-on field engineering role with a software core. You work directly with other startups, prime contractors, and military end users, turning their platforms and requirements into working integrations of our software. When something is not working, you go where the evidence leads: analyse a flight log and a rosbag side by side, trace a timing issue between camera and IMU, check a calibration, debug a MAVLink bridge, fix a Docker or network configuration, adapt an autonomy behavior, improve a deployment script, or bring a clean reproduction back to the perception and robotics software teams. When the root cause sits in our code, you fix it or pair with the engineer who owns that component.
The problems you work on are complex, dynamic, and multivariable. You often have partial information, limited time, imperfect tools, and a system where software, hardware, environment, and operator behavior interact in non-obvious ways. Your job is to create clarity, choose the right debugging path, and drive the system toward a robust long-term solution.
You work closely with the perception, robotics software, embedded, hardware, and flight-test teams, and with your hardware counterpart in the field engineering team. You do not just operate systems. You make them better, and your work determines how quickly SE3 moves from prototype to repeatable deployment, from demo to product, and from individual systems to operational fleets.