Robotics Software Engineer

Helsing, a defense AI company headquartered in Munich, Germany, is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join their team in Barcelona, Spain. The company focuses on developing artificial intelligence solutions to protect democracies, aiming to achieve technological leadership that enables open societies to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards. As a Robotics Software Engineer at Helsing, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team building production-grade software foundations for autonomous robotics systems. Your role will involve designing, implementing, and deploying high-performance ROS2-based architectures and control software for robots operating in complex, unstructured, and dynamic real-world environments. This includes ensuring low-latency, real-time communication, robust sensor integration, and reliable mechatronics performance. You will own the software lifecycle from architecture design to physical deployment on custom hardware, ensuring that systems are highly reliable, easily diagnosable, and ready for critical real-world operations.