Robotics Engineer

Senior Robotics Engineer — SLAM, Navigation & Mobile Manipulation

Munich, Germany | Full-time | On-site | High-Growth Robotics Startup

Some robotics jobs are about improving existing systems. This one is about building what comes next.

We're partnering with one of the most exciting robotics startups in Munich right now — a highly ambitious team working on a new generation of intelligent, autonomous robotic systems.

This isn't another role where you'll spend your time connecting existing ROS packages, running simulations, or building prototypes that never leave the lab.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Robotics Engineer who wants to solve some of the hardest challenges in real-world robotics: making robots understand where they are, navigate complex environments, and interact intelligently with the physical world.

You'll be joining at an exciting stage, where the engineering decisions you make today will directly shape the capabilities of tomorrow's robots.

If you've spent your career building autonomous systems and want your next challenge to be something genuinely ambitious, keep reading.

What makes this opportunity different?

You'll have the opportunity to take real ownership of core robotics technology, working at the intersection of:

• SLAM & Localisation: Developing and optimising sophisticated algorithms that allow robots to map, understand and navigate their environments.
• Autonomous Navigation: Building robust motion planning, path planning and obstacle avoidance capabilities for dynamic, real-world environments.
• Mobile Manipulation: Solving the challenges of combining autonomous mobility with intelligent robotic manipulation.
• Sensor Fusion & Perception: Working with LiDAR, cameras, IMUs and other sensors to build reliable, high-performance autonomy.
• Real-World Robotics: Taking algorithms beyond simulation and making them perform on actual robotic hardware.

This is an opportunity to work on the fundamental intelligence that makes autonomous robots possible — not simply integrate someone else's solution.

Who we're looking for

We're particularly interested in engineers who have spent 10 years developing real-world robotics systems, ideally within ambitious robotics companies, autonomous systems startups or advanced industrial robotics environments.

You'll likely bring

• 10 years of hands-on engineering experience, with substantial experience developing autonomous robotic systems.
• Deep expertise in classical SLAM, mapping and localisation algorithms, ideally with direct experience implementing or substantially modifying these algorithms yourself.
• Excellent modern C skills and experience developing high-performance, real-time robotics software.
• Strong experience with ROS / ROS2 and complex robotics software architectures.
• Practical knowledge of LiDAR SLAM, visual odometry, sensor fusion, state estimation, scan matching, loop closure and pose-graph optimisation.
• Experience with autonomous mobile robots, navigation, motion planning and obstacle avoidance.
• A strong understanding of how robotics algorithms behave on physical hardware, including debugging, optimisation and deployment.
• Ideally, exposure to robotic manipulation, motion planning or mobile manipulation.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who has built the algorithms, not just used the libraries.

Someone who understands what happens when localisation drifts, sensor data becomes unreliable, environments change unexpectedly, or a navigation system needs to perform consistently outside controlled conditions.

Why this role?

Because opportunities to shape the foundations of a robotics platform don't come around every day.

You'll be joining an ambitious Munich-based startup where:

• Your engineering decisions will have a direct impact on the product.
• You'll work on genuinely challenging robotics problems rather than incremental feature development.
• You'll have significant technical ownership and the freedom to influence how core autonomy systems are built.
• You'll work closely with talented engineers tackling difficult challenges across robotics, perception, navigation and manipulation.
• You'll see your work come to life on real robots.

If you're an experienced robotics engineer who loves C , SLAM, autonomous navigation and solving the problems that make robots work in the real world, we'd love to hear from you.

Message me directly or apply to learn more about this opportunity.

The company is operating confidentially at this stage, and further details will be shared with suitable candidates.