Founding Robotics Software Engineer

Lucé Robotics; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucé Robotics is seeking a robotics software engineer to develop autonomous navigation and field-ready software for outdoor ground vehicles. You will work on path planning, localization in GPS-denied areas and obstacle handling, while contributing to a Rust-based middleware stack and onboard drivers for new sensors and actuators.

Ideal candidates deploy autonomy on real hardware, preferring field work over simulations, and write production-quality, latency-conscious code for reliable operation

Qualifications

• Background in field robotics autonomy on outdoor ground vehicles.
• Strong Rust and/or C++, experience with ROS 2 or similar middleware.
• Deployed autonomy on real hardware outside the lab; field preferred over simulation.
• Writes production-quality systems code with low latency and robustness.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous navigation: path planning and following, localization where GPS is degraded, obstacle handling on rough terrain.
• Fleet operations platform: mission planning, deployment, remote monitoring and teleoperation.
• Onboard software stack on Rust-based middleware: drivers, integration of new sensors and actuators, real-time performance.
• Field reliability: logging, diagnostics and on-site debugging during customer deployments.

Skills

Rust

C++

ROS 2

Field autonomy

Job description

You'll write the code that lets a robot cross a site on its own.

What you'll own

• Autonomous navigation: path planning and following, localization where GPS is degraded, obstacle handling on rough terrain
• The fleet operations platform: mission planning, deployment, remote monitoring and teleoperation
• The onboard software stack on our Rust-based middleware: drivers, integration of new sensors and actuators, real-time performance
• Field reliability: logging, diagnostics and on-site debugging during customer deployments

Profile

• Background in field robotics autonomy on outdoor ground vehicles (agriculture, mining, AVs, defense)
• Strong Rust and/or C++, experience with ROS 2 or similar middleware
• Has deployed autonomy on real hardware outside the lab, and prefers the field to simulation
• Writes production-quality systems code with a strong sense of latency and robustness

What we look for

Real work over credentials. Show us what you have built: projects, a portfolio, open source, what you shipped in past roles. That's what we look at first.