Robotics Software Engineer - Perception

Company Description

Want to build the autonomy that drives a real robot through the real world?

Antoniq Robotics is building embodied AI for agriculture: robots that perceive, decide and act in demanding, real-world environments. We field-test so what you build drives an actual robot in the real world environment

We're looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to take ownership of the autonomy stack end to end: from perception and state estimation, through navigation and motion control, to validation in the field.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the localization and mapping stack that lets the robot know where it is in unstructured, GPS-degraded environments
• Build the perception layer that turns multimodal data into a reliable model of the world. That is, obstacles, free space, and the configuration space the robot has to operate in
• Design navigation and motion behaviours: planning, control, smoothing and recovery for robust, repeatable autonomy in demanding, real-world environments
• Build real-time state estimation that fuses heterogeneous sensor data under noise and uncertainty
• Keep the codebase clean, modular and testable, enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware
• Develop and maintain the simulation environment for end-to-end autonomy runs before they ever touch a robot
• Contribute to engineering standards: reproducible dev environments, linting, automated testing, profiling and layered system bring-up
• Spend time in the field: recurring lab and field sessions where you define objectives, run trials, log metrics and failure modes, and feed findings back into the backlog
• Collaborate with a team of driven individuals committed to building general-purpose Physical AI

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of experience in robotics software development, and a Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• Solid C++ and/or Python for real-time robotics applications
• A track record of taking autonomy from perception and state estimation, through navigation and motion control, to validation on real hardware
• Strong grasp of localization and mapping, and of sensor fusion / state estimation under real-world noise and uncertainty
• Experience with perception from range and vision sensors: filtering, segmentation, registration, and fusing data across multiple sensing modalities
• Experience with modern robotics middleware and real-time inter-process communication
• Comfortable with simulation-driven development and containerised, version-controlled engineering workflows
• A relentless commitment to data and code quality, rigorous evaluation, and meticulous attention to detail
• Exceptional ownership and initiative while finding and solving problems independently
• Proactive, comfortable debugging on a real robot in imperfect field conditions, and at home in a fast-moving startup
• Strong plus: high-precision outdoor positioning, and deep-learning-based perception, deploying control to embedded / real-time hardware

Logistics

• Candidates must have the right to work in Europe; no visa sponsorship is available.
• Hybrid / on-site working in Porto, Portugal.

Want to build autonomy that holds up in the field?

Send your CV to [email protected]