Founding Robotics Engineer Navigation & Autonomy

ABOUT NAXON

Naxon Robotics deploys swarms of mobile robots, quadrupeds, wheeled robots and drones, for security and industrial inspection. The fleet patrols perimeters, detects anomalies and inspects assets as one coordinated system, covering more ground 24/7 , delivering more value and reaching ROI faster than a single robot or a fleet of disconnected ones.

Why now: rising threats to critical infrastructure, too few people in security and industry , cheap and reliable hardware and fast moving AI agents. Hardware is ready . Deployment is not. Every new site is still a months-long expert project, so pilots rarely turn into rollouts. We make deployment repeatable, with swarms and an agentic platform that learns from each site.

Backed by EWOR, TUM VLABs and a robotics founder who built and exited a drone swarm company . Mentored by unicorn founders and Prof. Johannes Betz (autonomous driving and robotics, TUM).

THE ROLE

You own the autonomy stack every robot in our fleet runs on: SLAM, localisation and navigation, indoors and outdoors, across quadrupeds, wheeled robots and drones. You take it from the lab to production at customer sites and keep it robust there.

As the fleet grows, you grow the stack into multi robot coordination. This is the core the whole company scales on. You own the stack. The Field Robotics Engineer owns what runs at the customer.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Build and own SLAM, localisation, mapping and navigation, indoor and outdoor

• Select, combine and calibrate sensors: lidar , depth, RGB, thermal, IMU and GNSS

• Generalise the stack across quadrupeds, wheeled robots and drones

• Test and tune on real robots with benchmarks and field data, not only in simulation

• Define what runs on the robot and what runs in the cloud, including failure and fallback

• Take the stack to production at customer sites, then extend it to multi robot coordination

WHAT YOU BRING

• Has taken SLAM or an autonomy stack to production at real customers, not only research demos

• Strong in SLAM, localisation, state estimation and motion planning

• Expert in ROS2, C++ and Python, and a heavy user of AI coding agents

• Hands on with quadrupeds, wheeled robots or drones and their sensors on real hardware

• MSc / PhD plus 2 to 4 years in industry, or equivalent proven experience

WHY JOIN NAXON

• The challenge: one map shared across quadrupeds, wheeled robots and drones, task allocation across a live site, and an edge/cloud split over networks that drop

• Full ownership of your area, from architecture to what runs at the customer , and a clear path into leading it

• Real robots at real customer sites, from research to working reliably in real world conditions

• Hands-on work with cutting-edge robotics, hardware and AI

• Competitive salary and equity (VSOP / ESOP) as a founding team member

• Backing from EWOR and robotics mentors who have built, scaled and exited companies

• A supportive and inclusive team that values ownership and creativity

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