Senior Robot Platform Software Engineer (Zürich, 100%)

Loki Robotics; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Loki Robotics in Zürich, Switzerland is hiring a Robot Platform SWE to strengthen the onboard Linux stack, CI/CD pipelines, and hardware integration. This full-time on-site role focuses on reliable deployment, real-time guarantees, and safe software for autonomous robotics systems.

You will work on real-time Linux, driver interfaces (CAN, UDP/TCP, serial), and multi-arch Docker deployments, with later opportunities to influence architecture across subsystems.

Qualifikationen

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

Aufgaben

• Maintain and improve the onboard Linux stack with kernel tuning and real-time patches.
• Integrate software and hardware ensuring deterministic driver communication (udp/tcp, CAN, serial).
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-arch builds and secure OTA updates using Docker and Ansible.
• Establish engineering practices including hardware-in-the-loop testing and memory safety checks.

Kenntnisse

Systems programming (C++)

Python

Linux networking

Security hardening

Performance profiling

CI/CD

Test automation

Cross-domain collaboration

Ausbildung

3+ years in a SWE environment

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

CMake

Cargo

Jobbeschreibung

We are hiring a Robot Platform SWE

Start date: ASAP

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

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.

Don't worry if you don't hit every check-mark. We value engineers who care about reliability and have the curiosity to dig deep when things break.