Design and implement high-performance edge applications for autonomous drones. Integrate onboard systems, AI modules, sensors, and mission-control platforms. Optimize for constrained compute, network, and power. Debug distributed and real-time systems. Participate in architecture, testing, CI/CD, and cross-team collaboration.
Description
Airobotics is building the next generation of autonomous drone systems, enabling scalable aerial operations for industrial, security, and critical infrastructure environments.
We are establishing a new Edge Applications team within our Software R&D department, focused on developing high-performance applications that run directly on drone and edge computing platforms. These applications bridge real-world robotics, autonomy, AI, and mission-critical operational workflows.
As a Software Developer on the team, you will design and build software components that operate close to the hardware and real-time systems powering autonomous drones. You will work across embedded edge environments, communication systems, AI pipelines, mission logic and operational tooling.
This is a hands-on engineering role with strong impact on product architecture, system capabilities and future platform evolution
What We Offer
- Opportunity to shape a new strategic engineering team from the ground up
- Work on cutting-edge autonomous aerial systems deployed in real-world operational environments
- High ownership, technical challenges, and direct impact on product direction
- Collaborative and multidisciplinary engineering culture
- Dynamic startup environment with advanced technological challenges
- Design and develop edge applications running on autonomous drone platforms and edge computing devices
- Build reliable, scalable, and high-performance software for real-time operational environments
- Develop integrations between onboard systems, AI modules, sensors, and mission-control platforms
- Optimize software for constrained compute, network, and power environments
- Collaborate closely with autonomy, embedded, AI, DevOps, and product teams
- Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making for the new platform
- Debug and resolve complex system-level and distributed operational issues
- Contribute to software quality through testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent military/industry experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python or C++
- Experience building distributed systems
- Familiarity with Linux-based environments
- Experience with networking, asynchronous systems, or real-time applications
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced R&D environment
Advantage:
- Experience with robotics, drones, autonomous systems, or edge computing
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS2
- Experience with video streaming, computer vision, or AI inference pipelines
- Experience with Docker, or containerized edge deployments
- Knowledge of embedded Linux systems
- Experience with cloud-edge architectures
- Military technological unit background
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