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Robotics Software Engineer – Ground Control & Onboard Systems
Job Location:
Job Location:
Lausanne - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
13 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
10 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Your mission
We are looking for a hands-onRobotics Software Engineer to join our robotics development team. You will help shape the embedded and mobile software that powers our drones and ground control stations directly impacting the autonomous navigation real-time control and user experience of our systems.
In this role you will:
In this role you will:
- Build and enhance the graphical user interface for the ground control stationreal-time telemetry and data visualization intuitive and user-friendly.
- Design develop and maintain the embedded software for our onboard computers ensuring seamless collection recording and streaming of inspection data.
- Work closely with software and firmware engineers to fine-tune system performance.
- Develop and maintain the communication protocols that connect the drone ground station and cloud services.
- Optimize performance to ensure memory-efficient and reliable operations even in resource-constrained environments.
- Uphold high code quality standards through clean tested and maintainable software practices including unit testing CI/CD and code reviews.
- Contribute to architectural decisions helping to balance performance scalability and usability.
Your profile
- 5 years of experience in embedded and mobile software development for robotics drones or real-time applications.
- Strong proficiency in Rust as the primary language for performance-critical components.
- Experience with C for embedded systems and performance optimization.
- Expertise in ROS2 for robotics middleware and gstreamer for video processing and streaming pipelines.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux containerization ARM-based systems video encoding/decoding and hardware acceleration.
- Experience in GUI development with frameworks like egui or Qt and 3D visualization skills using OpenGL Vulkan or game engines such as Unity/Unreal.
- A knack for performance optimization particularly in memory management multithreading and real-time systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
- A passion for clean code modular design testing and maintainability.
- Excellent communication skills in English; French is an advantage.
- A solution-oriented rigorous self-motivated and team-focused mindset.
- Experience with PX4 or ArduPilot ecosystems.
- Knowledge of CUDA OpenCL or other GPU acceleration frameworks especially on the NVIDIA Jetson platform.
- Game development experience with Unity Unreal Engine or Godot.
- Contributions to open-source robotics or embedded projects.
Why us
- Evolution in a dynamic fast-growing and exciting environment.
- Have measurable impact in the innovative projects that matter where drones a built for good.
- Work with passionate talented and committed teammates in a reasonably sized team.
- Be part of a recognized robotics company Swiss scale-up. Consecutively rewarded as Swiss Top 100 Start-up and no 1 robotics start-up company 23/24
- Ensure your growth and profit from continuous training
- Be part of where humans are important!
- Modern offices in a compound of buildings full of start-ups.
- A team-elected Chief Happiness Officer making sure the shelves are always loaded with fruits juices and cakes.
- Weekly Flybotix only fitness session by a professional coach.
- Access to a personal benefits platform.
- On-site restaurants/cafeteria and vending machines.
About us
Welcome to Flybotix where innovation meets safety and efficiency. We believe that indoor inspections should be safe and cost-effective. Were dedicated to minimizing human exposure to hazardous environments while boosting efficiency. With our ASIO drone and software weve transformed confined space inspections. ASIO allows for over 20 minutes of visual inspection in the field keeping humans out of harms way. Weve doubled the flight time compared to our closest competitor replacing complex helicopter mechanisms with innovative technology. We serve a range of industries globally including sewer management hydro power plants oil & gas maritime and chemical plants. Our ASIO drone offers unmatched flight time making your inspections efficient and reliable. Join us in revolutionizing the future of industrial inspections prioritizing safety and efficiency!
We are a passionate ambitious and respectful team where our impact counts. We work hard and know each other beyond first names. We create and succeed whilst working mostly in our office based close to Lausanne. We grow and look forward to having more amazing people!
We are a passionate ambitious and respectful team where our impact counts. We work hard and know each other beyond first names. We create and succeed whilst working mostly in our office based close to Lausanne. We grow and look forward to having more amazing people!
Required Experience:
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About Company
Welcome to Flybotix, where innovation meets safety and efficiency. We believe that indoor inspections should be safe and cost-effective. We're dedicated to minimizing human exposure to hazardous environments while boosting efficiency. With our ASIO drone and software, we've transforme ... View more
