System Engineer Robotics

Robotics Systems Engineer

NY Hybrid

Compensation: Up to $200,000 base competitive equity

We’re partnering with a venture-backed defence technology company building a next-generation maritime sensing platform deployed globally across distributed autonomous systems. The team is tackling problems at the intersection of robotics, edge AI, satellite communications, and large-scale sensing infrastructure, delivering capabilities that do not currently exist anywhere else at operational scale.

They are looking for a Robotics Systems Engineer with 4 years of experience to help scale a multimodal edge sensing platform operating in harsh maritime environments. This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and has experience shipping reliable production systems, not just prototypes.

You’ll join a lean, mission-driven engineering organisation where the work is highly visible, technically demanding, and directly tied to real-world operations.

What You’ll Do

* Own the reliability, stability, and scalability of the robotics middleware stack across deployed field systems.

* Reduce technical debt through targeted architectural improvements and rewrites while maintaining backwards compatibility with already deployed hardware.

* Build and maintain ROS2-based middleware utilities orchestrating multimodal sensor systems including:

* Radar

* Cameras, including thermal and infrared

* SDR

* IMU

* GPS

* Acoustic sensors

* LiDAR

* Develop software running on NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware operating in bandwidth-constrained and environmentally harsh maritime conditions.

* Optimise data transmission over satellite networks, including compression, prioritisation, buffering, and recovery strategies.

* Contribute to edge-to-cloud delivery pipelines feeding downstream AWS-based intelligence and analytics systems.

* Build diagnostics tooling, automated validation frameworks, and deployment health monitoring for long-duration unattended systems.

* Participate in operational support and on-call rotation for deployed assets.

* Collaborate closely with AI, platform, and backend engineering teams to define shared interfaces, observability tooling, and system abstractions.

What They’re Looking For

* 4 years of experience in robotics, distributed systems, embedded systems, or edge infrastructure engineering.

* Strong production experience with ROS2 in real-world deployed environments.

* Proficiency in Python and/or C .

* Strong Linux systems engineering experience.

* Experience working with edge compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson.

* Familiarity with multimodal sensor integration and synchronisation.

* Experience building systems that must tolerate unreliable connectivity, constrained bandwidth, or remote deployments.

* Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills across hardware and software boundaries.

* Comfortable owning ambiguous technical problems end-to-end with minimal oversight.

* Experience shipping production-grade systems at scale.

Nice to Have

* Maritime, aerospace, defence, or autonomous systems experience.

* Experience with satellite networking or Starlink-based deployments.

* Familiarity with SDR, radar, sensor fusion, or edge ML inference pipelines.

* AWS infrastructure and cloud data pipeline experience.

* Observability and telemetry tooling experience for distributed robotics systems.