Senior Robot Platform Software Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

Nabla; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nabla in Zürich, Switzerland is hiring a Robot Platform SWE to build and maintain the backbone of our robotics software. This on-site role focuses on reliable Linux-based platforms, real-time capabilities, and tools to troubleshoot and roll back when needed.

You will work across hardware and software, designing CI/CD pipelines, integrating drivers, and ensuring secure OTA updates while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years in a professional SWE environment, preferably in Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace.
• Strong systems programming (modern C++) and experience in Python.
• Knowledge of Linux such as the networking stack, systemd, security/hardening, performance profiling.
• Experience in software building (CMake, Cargo, Docker) and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform) or SW deployment (Docker, debs).
• Experience in test automation (unit tests, integration tests).
• Comfortable contributing across different domains.

Aufgaben

• Maintain and improve the onboard Linux stack including kernel tuning, real-time patches (PREEMPT_RT), resource isolation (cgroups), and host metric collection.
• Integrate the software and hardware by ensuring that the drivers communicate seamlessly and deterministically (udp/tcp, CAN, serial)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-arch builds and secure OTA updates using Docker and Ansible
• Establish good engineering practices, ranging from hardware-in-the-loop test frameworks and memory safety checks to code guidelines

Kenntnisse

C++

Python

Linux

Networking

Systemd

Security hardening

Performance profiling

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

CMake

Cargo

Jobbeschreibung

We are hiring a Robot Platform SWE

Start date: ASAP

Location: Zürich, Switzerland (on-site, remote not possible)

Position: Full-time (100%)

Your role

Robotics is the ultimate full-stack challenge. It combines heterogeneous compute, real-time guarantees, and AI models in a box that has to work unsupervised in the field for weeks. You will work on the backbone of our development cycle to make this a reality. You will ensure that the code runs safely, deployments are atomic, and we have the best tools to troubleshoot and roll-back when it goes wrong.

What you'll be doing

• Maintain and improve the onboard Linux stack including kernel tuning, real-time patches (PREEMPT_RT), resource isolation (cgroups), and host metric collection

• Integrate the software and hardware by ensuring that the drivers communicate seamlessly and deterministically (udp/tcp, CAN, serial)

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-arch builds and secure OTA updates using Docker and Ansible

• Establish good engineering practices, ranging from hardware-in-the-loop test frameworks and memory safety checks to code guidelines

What you should have

• 3+ years in a professional SWE environment, preferably in Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace

• Strong systems programming (modern C++) and experience in Python

• Knowledge of Linux such as the networking stack, systemd, security/hardening, performance profiling

• Experience in software building (CMake, Cargo, Docker) and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform) or SW deployment (Docker, debs)

• Experience in test automation (unit tests, integration tests)

• Comfortable contributing across different domains

These skills are a plus:

• Experience in Rust, ROS2, Zenoh

• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and simulation-in-the-loop (SIL) testing

• Worked on integrating and debugging real hardware: sensors, actuators, motor drivers,...

• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson

As the first dedicated platform engineer, you will have a massive impact on our engineering culture. As the team grows, you can remain a high-impact generalist and work across all layers of abstraction or specialize and lead individual subsystems.