Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Open Position

To reinforce its embedded and autonomous software team, RBAT is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in embedded software, robotics, autonomy, sensor integration and real-time systems. You will join a high-impact engineering team driving the development of autonomous and defense-grade platforms. This role focuses on advanced software engineering while leveraging experience with autopilot kits, robotics middleware, mechatronics platforms, sensor fusion, and AI/ML pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize embedded and real-time C++ applications for autonomous platforms.

• Ensure system-to-system and sensor-to-system integration compliance using ICDs.

• Integrate and configure autopilot systems and custom flight-control kits.

• Implement real-time communication via UDP/TCP sockets, serial protocols, and robotics middleware.

• Develop and implement algorithms for autonomous navigation, planning, and control.

• Implement sensor fusion pipelines using IMU, GPS, LiDAR, radar, and camera inputs.

• Build distributed data systems with ZeroMQ, Kafka, Protobuf, MAVLink, MAVROS, and gRPC.

• Develop AI and computer vision modules, including object detection, tracking, and real-time perception.

• Collaborate with Command and Control, Product ownership, and quality assurance teams for end-to-end integration.

• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architecture planning.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation, including design specs, APIs, and integration guides.

• Research and introduce new technologies to enhance autonomy, AI, and perception stack performance.

Desired Candidate Profile

Technical Competencies

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics or related field.

• 10+ years in software engineering and embedded development.

• Strong proficiency in C++ for real-time, performance-critical embedded systems.

• Robotics & autonomy expertise: ROS/ROS2, MAVLink/MAVROS, PX4/ArduPilot/custom autopilot kits and MATLAB.

• AI, Machine Learning & Computer Vision is a plus

• Agile experience with JIRA, Confluence, Git, CI/CD pipelines.