Senior UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Software

The role

You will integrate navigation and perception software onto UAVs, payloads, and onboard compute. You will perform field deployment, debugging, and testing at customer sites and test ranges.

What you will do

• Bring navigation, perception, and autonomy software onto partner UAVs and onboard compute
• Connect software to flight controllers, cameras, IMUs, radios, and ground stations
• Analyze flight logs, rosbags, and system logs to find root causes
• Contribute to Python or C++ code to fix bugs
• Own software deployment tooling including Docker containers and configuration
• Build and use intelligent debugging and log analysis workflows
• Define and run acceptance tests for software releases and platform integrations
• Install, configure, maintain, and support software at test ranges and customer sites
• Demonstrate systems and support training for end users

Required qualifications

• B.Sc., M.Sc. PhD, technical apprenticeship, military technical training, or equivalent practical background in Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Syste
• Hands-on experience integrating, testing, operating, or troubleshooting software on complex robotic, UAV, embedded, automotive, industrial automation, or defence systems
• Proficiency in Linux command line, Bash and Python scripting, Docker, Git, systemd, device and network configuration
• Experience with ROS2 or similar, MAVLink, PX4 or ArduPilot, QGroundControl or Mission Planner
• Ability to understand and modify C++ and Python code
• Ability to use a multimeter or serial console
• Willingness to travel for field tests, partner demonstrations, exercises, and deployments
• Fluent English
• Driving license

Nice to have

• German
• Experience with visual-inertial odometry, SLAM, or GNSS-denied navigation
• Experience with embedded Linux and perception pipelines on edge devices
• Experience with UAVs and flight controllers beyond the basics
• Experience with networking and radio systems
• Experience with perception or autonomy systems
• Experience interpreting sensor data, robot logs, flight logs, frequency-domain data
• Experience creating acceptance tests, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, fleet dashboards, release checklists, or field-support processes
• Experience with LLM-based agents and AI-assisted debugging and analysis workflows
• Experience soldering, crimping, repairing harnesses, using multimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, serial consoles, or other lab and field equipment

Benefits

• Equity and real stock options
• High-quality and modern toolset
• Flat hierarchy
• AI-first company with access to best-in-class AI tools
• 31 Paid Days Off (30 vacation days plus birthday)
• Free membership to gyms, yoga, and wellness through EGYM Wellpass
• 2 company retreats per year
• Professional mentor

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to work on defence-related projects
• Must be able to obtain relevant security clearance where required

About the company

SE3 Labs is building Spatial AI by combining 3D computer vision with large language models. They bring Spatial AI into the sky through high-performance UAVs.