Senior Robotics & Autonomy Engineer – Individual Drone Autonomy

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🇺🇦 Ukraine – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Robotics

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Swarmer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $500k Venture Round - Swarmer on 2025-11

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

Swarmer is an AI-powered autonomy and swarming software company that enables groups of drones and other unmanned vehicles to operate collaboratively and autonomously. Headquartered with ties to Ukraine and operating internationally, Swarmer provides a modular software stack that supports autonomous navigation in GPS/GNSS-denied and electronic-warfare environments, scalable coordination (up to hundreds of drones per operator), and combat-tested mission templates for reconnaissance, strike, counter-UAV and fully autonomous operations. Its platform is used by multiple armed forces and is being extended from aerial drones to fixed-wing, ground and sea vehicles.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and optimize onboard autonomy and perception systems for individual drones on a multi-vendor platform • Develop features for navigation, flight control, sensor fusion, and photogrammetry • Adapt existing algorithms to new sensors and path-planning constraints • Convert R&D algorithms into production-ready solutions • Identify performance bottlenecks, handle edge cases, and improve field reliability • Optimize onboard latency, power consumption, and data throughput on a real-time, resource-constrained companion computer • Build and maintain simulation environments and digital twins • Reduce the gap between simulation and real flights • Support field tests with the test-range team • Remain available online during flights and occasionally travel to the test site

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years in robotics or autonomy engineering, ideally with UAVs or mobile robots • Strong Python on Linux • Experience with C/C++ and embedded systems is highly valued • Solid grounding in linear algebra, control theory, probability, and numerical methods • Hands-on experience with state estimation, path planning, or flight control algorithms • Practical knowledge of drone physics • Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, or another MAVLink flight stack • Basic computer vision or photogrammetry • Basic electronics: reading schematics, using a multimeter, debugging sensors and power • English at B2 level or higher • Contributions to PX4 or ArduPilot, or custom firmware changes, would be an advantage • Airframe integration, including sensor calibration, tuning, and flight controller setup, would be an advantage • VIO, visual navigation, or navigation integrity in GNSS-denied conditions would be an advantage • Experience in defense or EW-contested environments would be an advantage • Experience building, flying, crashing, and debugging personal drones would be an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• 20 paid vacation days • Comprehensive health insurance • Paid sick leave • Flexible working arrangements depending on operational and security requirements • Military reservation and other benefits of the defense sector

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