3 days ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and drive development of new features across the autonomy stack and partner integrations.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers, product managers, and external partners to define requirements and software architecture.
- Design and implement distributed state machines, leader-election protocols, fault-tolerant architectures, and concurrent systems.
- Develop maintainable code and manage complex concurrency and contention scenarios.
- Run rigorous SITL/HITL simulation tests before physical deployment.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical documentation.
- Investigate flight-test failures and apply engineering judgment to physical failure modes and release safety.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience in robotics, embedded systems, or distributed systems.
- Deep proficiency in modern C++ and experience designing, reasoning about, and debugging highly concurrent systems.
- Embedded systems experience on real-time or safety-critical platforms such as avionics, automotive, or robotics.
- Strong architectural understanding of distributed systems and consensus design selection.
- Familiarity with robust release management, versioned artifacts, and pinned dependencies.
- Experience with PX4, MAVLink, and related drone software ecosystems is preferred.
- EU citizenship is required.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Stock options.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Company pension plan.
- Car parking.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing support.
About Auterion
Auterion builds an operating system and software platform for autonomous robots and drones, combining onboard autonomy with cloud-based fleet management for enterprise and government operators. It monetizes through commercial subscriptions, integrations, and support for its PX4-based stack used across delivery, inspection, and defense applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Auterion is privately held.