Your mission
Our robots have to handle that: know where they are, decide where to go, and keep moving a tonne of freight past human beings and dynamic obstacles without drama. The robot doesn't get to decide people are the problem. It has to work around them, every time. On someone else's hardware, in someone else's building, on a Monday morning.
You're not just building another algorithm. You're accountable for whether the robot copes with reality.
What you'll do
- Drive our robotics software forward
For mobile robots on real industrial floors, not in a demo, not in a benchmark. What's worth building properly and what's worth working around for now is a call you make together with the team. - Design and build across the stack
Navigation and path planning, obstacle avoidance, and how one robot's behaviour holds up once it's one of dozens sharing the same floor. Rarely solo work: a change in one module ripples straight into the others. - Test where it actually counts
Simulation first, then different hardware, different robots, real sites. The gap between those two is where most of the work hides. - Make the technical calls in your area
On a team this size your calls ship instead of getting reviewed to death, but you bring them to the team first, and you live with them afterwards. - Be the lighthouse
The one people steer by when the robot does something nobody can explain. Whether a problem gets fixed where it showed up or where it came from is your judgement, worked out with whoever else is in the room. - And if localization is your deep end
…our multi-modal Live SLAM package would love someone who lives in it.
Your profile
- 5+ yrs building robotics software that made it into production
- Shipped on hardware and in environments you didn't control. Simulation-only doesn't count
- C++17+, and code your colleagues can pick up without calling you
- Hands-on with real hardware: LiDAR, IMUs, motor controllers, and a healthy distrust of all of them and their particular quirks
- A systems view. You know how navigation, perception and integration fail together, not just apart
- Collaborative dev on an industrial product: review, versioning, CI
- Comfortable working on Linux
Nice-to-have
- Depth in SLAM, sensor fusion or computer vision. SLAM is where our hardest problems currently live, so if that's your thing, say so loudly
- ROS 2, or ROS 1 experience that carries over
- Intralogistics, warehouse automation, industrial deployments
Not for you if
- you're early career or coming straight out of studies. No hard feelings, we just don't have the ramp-up capacity right now
Who you are
- Keen to work closely with the people around you? We got you.
- A requirement doesn't add up, and you'd rather ask now than build it twice? Yes please.
- Making the people around you better counts as part of your job? That's half the role.
- Being the go-to person doesn't scare you? We see you.
- Ambitious goals, and colleagues who are genuinely good at this? That's the deal.
- We're looking for someone who drives themselves and keeps learning, not someone who waits to be pointed at a ticket.
Side quest
How would you find out what happened? Walk us through your approach, in the order you'd work.
Half a page. Bullets fine. No right answer, we want the reasoning. And if localization happens to be your deep end, feel free to go further than half a page.
Send it instead of a cover letter ("work sample upload") additionally to your CV. A good answer gets you a conversation, fast.
What we offer
- Your rhythm matters most, which is why we don't do such a thing as core hours
- Hybrid work environment
- Deutschland-Ticket, subsidised
- Urban Sports Club, subsidised
- Learning budget a year, spend it on whatever moves you
- Corporate Benefits for exclusive discounts
- …and of course plenty of snacks and drinks in the office
Senior Developer Robotics in Stuttgart Arbeitgeber: NODE Robotics
NODE Robotics ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern flexible Arbeitszeiten, ein modernes und barrierefreies Büro in Stuttgart sowie ein jährliches Lernbudget bietet, das für persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung genutzt werden kann. Unsere Unternehmenskultur fördert Feedback und Wissensaustausch, was zu einem kontinuierlichen Wachstum und einer starken Teamdynamik führt. Als innovatives Start-up im Bereich mobile Robotik bieten wir die Möglichkeit, an der Spitze der Technologie zu arbeiten und aktiv zur Evolution der Branche beizutragen.
