Lead Robotics Software Engineer - SLAM & Autonomy

Reqiva; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Reqiva is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own architecture for autonomous robotics systems, including SLAM, perception, and embedded control in real hardware deployments.

You'll lead cross-disciplinary teams across ML, control, and hardware, shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and drive field-ready solutions from prototype to production in a fast-growing Australian deep-tech environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience with leadership exposure.
• Robotics, image processing, control systems, or related domains.
• Strong state estimation knowledge: SLAM, Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, GNSS integration.
• Hands-on Rust or strong C++ with Rust exposure.
• Experience bringing complex systems from prototype to production.
• Excellent performance optimization at algorithmic and systems levels.
• Embedded Linux experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of an embedded computer vision and control system.
• Collaborate with ML, control systems and hardware teams to deliver full-stack solutions.
• Define and drive scalable software architecture for new product features and platform capabilities.
• Lead troubleshooting, testing, optimisation and technical decision-making during live field testing.
• Mentor engineers through technical coaching, code reviews and day-to-day leadership.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Robotics

Image processing

Control systems

State estimation

Sensor fusion

GNSS integration

C++

Rust

Embedded Linux

Performance optimization

Tools

C++

Rust

Job description

Reqiva is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own architecture for autonomous robotics systems, including SLAM, perception, and embedded control in real hardware deployments.

You'll lead cross-disciplinary teams across ML, control, and hardware, shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and drive field-ready solutions from prototype to production in a fast-growing Australian deep-tech environment.