Senior Robotics & Autonomy Engineer (Collaborative drone autonomy)

The role

A Senior Robotics & Autonomy Engineer will build and harden collaborative autonomy for a multi-vendor drone platform. The role focuses on multi-agent coordination, including task allocation, deconfliction, and collaborative path planning in battlefield conditions.

What you will do

• Build distributed onboard autonomy that runs in real time across several companion computers
• Evolve multi-agent algorithms to work with limited bandwidth, high latency, and packet loss
• Turn R&D algorithms into product-ready code
• Optimize processing time, power consumption, and data flow
• Design resilient comms and coordination
• Build explainability for the swarm including intent and decision logs
• Own the simulation pipeline for features
• Support field tests for features

Required qualifications

• 4+ years building decision-making systems for robots or autonomous agents
• Hands-on experience with multi-agent or multi-robot coordination
• Strong Python on Linux
• Solid grounding in linear algebra, control theory, probability, and numerical methods
• Hands-on experience with simulators and digital twins
• English at B2 or higher

Nice to have

• Experience with C/C++ and embedded systems
• Contributed to ArduPilot or PX4, or modified flight firmware
• Built distributed systems that run on edge devices
• Worked in defense or EW-contested environments
• Built, flown, crashed, and debugged your own drones

Benefits

• 20 paid vacation days
• comprehensive health insurance
• paid sick leave
• Flexible working arrangements depending on operational and security requirements
• Benefits of the defense sector (military reservation, etc.)

Before you apply

• Recruiter Screen
• Technical Interview
• Management Interview
• Security check

About the company

Swarmer develops software that makes drones autonomous and allows them to operate together in large, coordinated teams. The company is a Ukrainian defense startup that went public on NASDAQ in March 2026.