Software Engineer - Weapon Control System (m/w/d)

What we offer:
• Opportunity to work on a new solution from scratch in a technical complex environment
• Work in an international, agile, cross-functional team creating the future of autonomous systems
• Grow your career in a expanding and ambitious engineering team
• Build innovative products using state-of-the-art technologies in AI, robotics, and autonomy 
• Benefit from a steep learning curve and continuous development
• Enjoy team events and a strong, collaborative culture

Your mission:
Join our newly established engineering team to build the core weapon control software for the operation of a novel robotic defensive turret in combination with kinetic effectors. You will design, implement, validate, and harden software from the user interface down to hardware-close robotic control, which must perform under real operational conditions. Your work will directly shape the reliability, safety, and tactical capability of the systems we deliver.

What you will do
You will contribute to the design, development, and integration of operational weapon control software with core robotic capabilities, including:• Low-level, real-time interface integration with the robotics system (but not engineering of the robotics or electronics itself).
• Position control and high-precision calibration of the robotic system based on object tracking input from a multi-modal sensor suite.
• Developing and improving algorithms for targeting, ballistic calculations, and safe fire control.
• Designing and implementing weapon control software with multi-device (embedded, tablet, …) user interface and rule-based control logic.
• Building safeguards to ensure deterministic behaviour, reliability, and system-level stability.
• Debugging and validating the system during field tests and under real-world constraints.

You will execute on real hardware and iterate based on operational performance; field results are the final metric.

Your profile:
We are looking for three engineers, which jointly cover the below needs. Therefore, you must be able to cover not all, but a large portion of the below.

Must-Have Skills
Technical Fundamentals:
• Proficiency in C++ for control of the robotic hardware interface via ROS2.
• Experience developing software that runs on real robots, embedded systems, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.
• Experience with API design and development of abstraction layers between hardware capabilities and operator control logic.
• Expertise in developing middleware between robotics and the user interface; ideally in a secure programming language like Rust.
• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and numerical methods. In particular, for the development of speed-optimized, high-precision calculations for tracking, positioning, and ballistics.
• Development of intuitive, robust, and efficient user interface software that is device-independent and portable. Therefore, extensive experience in an appropriate framework like Flutter/Dart or React is mandatory.
• Strong debugging skills: Runtime issues, latency, performance bottlenecks, integration failures, memory safety, graceful degradation.
• Ability to architect, design, implement, and document clean, modular, and maintainable software systems.

Mindset & Attitude:
• Builder mentality: You ship working solutions, not theoretical concepts.
• Hands-on ownership: You proactively solve problems, even outside your direct scope.
• Field-driven mindset: You care about what works and survives in real operations.
• High quality bar: You aim for reliability, determinism, and clarity in your engineering, because lives might depend on it.
• Startup drive: You execute fast despite ambiguity and adapt quickly to change operational needs.

Mission alignment: Genuine motivation to work on defence-relevant, safety-critical systems.

Nice to have:
Non-technical requirements:
• Business language is English and fluency in speaking, understanding, and writing is a must; German language skill is a bonus.
• Prior military service experience is a bonus.

What else:
• Willingness to travel
• Citizenship of NATO member country or closed allied are mandatory