Senior Software Engineer (Aerial Swarming)

Location: Munich or Berlin, Germany

Company

hirify.global designs and manufactures software-defined, scalable unmanned systems for defence and autonomous operations.

What you will do

• Develop and integrate real-time cooperative control, decentralized routing, and perception algorithms on embedded platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson.
• Architect and optimize multi-agent communication networks using ROS2 and DDS for reliable data distribution.
• Implement and maintain Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing environments for swarming features.
• Collaborate with AI, controls, and hardware teams to integrate swarming behaviors with onboard subsystems.
• Profile and debug performance under compute, thermal, and bandwidth constraints during field deployments.
• Contribute to system-level architecture and clean, modular C++ implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics, aerospace, or autonomous systems.
• Expert-level modern C++ proficiency for low-latency, multithreaded embedded and robotics development.
• Hands-on ROS2 and DDS knowledge, including real-time communication architectures.
• Experience with embedded Linux, NVIDIA Jetson devices, and hardware interfaces.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills; willingness to travel occasionally for field testing and deployment.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying flocking, consensus, or decentralized task-allocation algorithms on physical multi-vehicle systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time permanent employment.
• Hands-on work involving real software, field deployment, and resource-constrained systems.
• Occasional travel for field testing and deployment.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration across AI, controls, hardware, and software engineering.