Embedded Software Engineer - UAV & Autonomy - 2277 - Permanent

Key points of the position Reporting to the engineering team, you will develop embedded software enabling autonomous navigation capabilities for UAV systems operating in GNSS-denied environments.

Missions As an Embedded Software Engineer, your missions will include:

• Working directly with ArduPilot or PX4 flight stacks at source-code level (C++), developing custom drivers and modifying flight modes
• Implementing and debugging interfaces between custom sensors and flight controllers
• Integrating external position data into the flight controller using MAVLink protocols (e.g., VISION_POSITION_ESTIMATE, ODOMETRY)
• Analyzing and debugging complex flight logs to identify anomalies, particularly in EKF state estimation and system behavior
• Using SITL (Software In The Loop) simulation environments to validate software before deployment on real hardware
• Ensuring correct coordinate frame transformations (NED vs body-frame) for accurate local navigation and flight commands
• Supporting real-world testing and flight validation in collaboration with the hardware and field testing teams

• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python within embedded or robotics environments
• Experience working with ArduPilot or PX4 flight control systems, ideally at source-code level
• Solid knowledge of state estimation, sensor fusion, and Extended Kalman Filters (EKF)
• Experience integrating external sensors and systems using MAVLink protocols
• Comfortable analyzing flight logs and debugging complex real-world system behaviors
• Strong engineering rigor combined with a practical testing mindset
• Fluent English and German

Security clearance Eligibility for German security clearance (SÜ2/Ü2) is required: German or EU citizenship mandatory.