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title: 'UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Hardware at SE3 Labs'
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# UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Hardware at SE3 Labs

- **Company:** SE3 Labs
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/se3/02e3217b-3c06-4e7d-be03-dc52658484d4

## Job description

🚀 Join SE3 Labs as (Senior) UAV / Robotics Integration Field Engineer - Hardware Be the person who makes advanced autonomous systems work in the real world. Move across the full stack: drones, sensors, calibration, autonomy software, perception, networking, payloads, field operations, and partner environments. When the system is not mission-ready, you create clarity, find the root cause, and help make it robust.

## About SE3

SE3 Labs is building Spatial AI by combining 3D computer vision with large language models. We believe the ability to reason about and act within physical space is foundational to unlocking the next generation of automation, from construction to smart infrastructure, and ultimately, defence. Now, we’re bringing Spatial AI into the sky through high-performance UAVs that can perceive, localize, coordinate, and act in the real world. This requires more than strong algorithms and good hardware. It requires systems that can be configured, calibrated, tested, deployed, demonstrated, debugged, and improved under real field conditions. We’re looking for a hands-on engineer who wants to work close to the product, close to the field, and close to the full autonomy stack. Someone who is not limited to one layer, but follows the problem wherever it leads.

## About the Role

As (Senior) UAV / Robotics Integration Engineer, you will be the part of SE3’s engineering team to bring our technology into real-world use. You will bring together UAVs, payloads, sensors, onboard compute, autonomy software, operator tools, and partner environments into systems that are ready to fly, test, demonstrate, and deploy. This is a highly hands-on, end-to-end prototyping and field engineering role. You will work directly with other startups, prime contractors, and military institutions, translating their requirements into practical mechanical and electrical designs building on our existing technology. When something is not working, you go where the evidence leads: recalibrate a sensor, debug a radio link, inspect a wiring harness, analyse a flight log, fix a configuration issue, improve a checklist, or bring the right evidence back to the software development team. The problems you will work on are complex, dynamic, and multivariable. You will often have partial information, limited time, and a system where hardware, software, environment, and operator behavior interact in non-obvious ways. Your job is to create clarity, choose the right debugging path, and drive the system toward a robust long-term solution. You will not just operate systems. You will make them better.

## What You’ll Work On

- Own the integration project: Consult with partners, clarify requirements, agree interfaces and test criteria, and drive technical decisions and milestones to a working joint system.
- Cross-Stack Engineering: Design integration concepts, CAD models, electrical circuits and system integration and bring together sensors, enclosures, calibration, compute, mechanisms, power electronics, controls, networking, autonomy software, and operator workflows.
- Validation & Fieldability Ownership: Put your system through its paces: on test stands and in the field. Spot design flaws, integration gaps, recurring failure modes, and process bottlenecks. And establish confidence in mission-readiness as the maturity is realized.
- Create clarity in complex situations: Separate symptoms from root causes, devise efficient debugging workflows, reproduce failures and drive lasting solutions that make the system more robust long term. When the root cause requires it, contribute directly to the layer that matters, drawing directly from the experts who develop core components of your system.
- Acceptance & Testing Automation: Define and run acceptance tests for platforms, payloads, and deployment configurations. Own readiness checks across calibration, software flashing, networking, sensors, and pre-mission setup. Make readiness measurable and repeatable.
- Field Deployment & End-User Interface: Install, configure, maintain, and support SE3 systems at test ranges, customer sites, partner demonstrations, exercises, and real-world deployments. Make sure our autonomous platforms perform reliably where it matters, enable end-users to succeed in their missions and represent SE3 with technical credibility outside the lab.

## Your Profile

- Most importantly, you’re structured, fast-moving, and mission-driven. You don’t wait for perfect information. You create clarity, iterate fast, and prefer finding and fixing root causes over applying patches.
- You hold a B.Sc., M.Sc. or similar degree in Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, or a related field.
- You bring multiple years of hands-on experience integrating, testing, operating, and troubleshooting complex robotic, UAV, embedded, automotive, industrial automation, or defence systems.
- You are proficient in using CAD software, creating wiring diagrams, building electromechanic prototypes and defining and executing test campaigns across hardware disciplines.
- You are familiar with soldering, crimping, using multimeters, oscilloscopes, serial consoles, or other lab and field equipment, with at least basic experience in command line, data analysis tools and Linux usage.
- You are proactive, hands-on and able to find effective solutions also under the constraints of field-campaigns and willing to travel and deploy across Europe.
- You enjoy working directly with partners, operators, and end users. You can explain technical problems clearly, build trust in stressful situations, and represent SE3 professionally outside the lab.
- You speak fluent English; German is a strong plus. A driving license is required. Given the nature of SE3’s work in the defence sector, candidates must be eligible to work on defence-related projects and, where required, obtain the relevant security clearance.

Especially Valued Bonus Skills

- Specific knowledge in UAVs, PX4, ArduPilot, QGroundControl, Mission Planner, MAVLink, flight log analysis, mission planning, and airspace coordination.
- Proficiency in PCBA and electronics circuit design and prototyping, especially targeting high-speed data interfaces and sensors
- Experience with development on ROS2, Docker, Linux, edge compute devices, C++/Python, Bash, Git, or deployment automation.
- Experience with networking and radio systems, including WiFi networks, LTE/5G modems, VPNs, telemetry links, antenna placement, RF interference, tactical communication links, and debugging connectivity issues in the field.
- Experience with perception or measurement systems, camera/IMU calibration, sensor synchronization, image processing, or mission autonomy.
- Skills interpreting sensor data, robot logs, flight logs, frequency-domain data, vibration issues, EMI issues, thermal issues, or intermittent hardware failures.
- Experience with environmental testing such as vibration, thermal, ingress protection, EMI/EMC, or MIL-STD-style qualification workflows.
- Experience creating acceptance tests, runbooks, troubleshooting- or training guides, fleet dashboards, release checklists, or field-support processes.

## Perks & Benefits

- Real Ownership: Get equity early, real stock options to participate directly in SE3’s growth
- Work Environment to Excel at: Find a high-quality and modern toolset, flat hierarchy and a skilled, driven team which will push the limits together with you. We are an AI-first company empowering every employee with best-in-class AI tools and agents, giving you unlimited access to the latest advancements and a true productivity edge.
- 31 Paid Days Off: 30 vacation days plus your birthday off
- Well-being Access: Free membership to gyms, yoga, and wellness through EGYM Wellpass
- Team Offsites: We go on 2 company retreats per year, our last ones were in Italy and Greece
- Mentorship: Work closely with experienced engineers and get paired with a professional mentor to support your growth

Our Process

- Intro Call (20 min): Let’s get to know each other
- Technical Screen (30 min): First overview of your abilities in system integration, field testing and debugging
- Technical Interview (45 min): We dive deeper into your hardware design skills and ability to iterate based on first principle reasoning.
- Onsite Trial/Case (1.5-2 hrs): We’ll integrate, diagnose, debug, or test something together, just like on the job.
- Team Dinner/Lunch: See if it’s a culture fit on both sides

## About SE3 Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SE3 Labs builds next-generation spatial AI for autonomous systems, enabling machines to perceive, reason, and act autonomously in the physical world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage; $3.2M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Lukas Köstler (CEO), Simon Klenk (CTO), Daniel Cremers (CSO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Defence technology, autonomous systems, spatial AI, computer vision
- Target customers: Defence organisations (e.g., German Bundeswehr), defence contractors, operators of unmanned aerial/ground systems (B2G/B2B)
- Mission or purpose: “Laying the foundation for a new generation of resilient, software-defined capabilities” and advancing Europe’s technological sovereignty through spatial intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Spatial AI Platform**: A hardware-agnostic, on-edge software stack that combines navigation, perception, and AI reasoning. It provides:
  - **GNSS-denied navigation** (visual-inertial odometry, real-time map matching)
  - **Real-time 3D common operating picture** (semantic understanding, sub-metre localisation)
  - **Natural language swarm control** – one operator commands mixed aerial/ground swarms via spoken intent
  - **AI agents** that analyse the environment and reason over objects and movements in real time
  - **Sensor-to-shooter capability** – target-grade coordinate generation for coordinated action

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $3.2M (conflicting reports: $3.15M per PitchBook) [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/se3-labs) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/542367-37)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lakestar, Seedcamp, EWOR, Sequoia Scout Fund, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators, SDAC, Magnetic, TwinTrack Ventures, Plug and Play, founders of Flixbus and Ascending Technologies, EUDIS Business Accelerator
- **Growth Signals**: 150% YoY headcount growth (29 employees); active under contract with the German Bundeswehr; multiple defence contracts won; reduced sensor-to-shooter timeline “by an order of magnitude”; presence in Germany, UK, Singapore, Switzerland [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/06/26/backed-by-lakestar-seedcamp-and-ewor-se3-unveils-spatial-ai-platform-for-autonomous-systems/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **World-class research foundation**: Founders and team from TU Munich, with over 400 scientific publications and 87,000+ citations; leadership in computer vision and AI (e.g., Daniel Cremers – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner)
- **Hardware-agnostic, modular stack**: Integrates with any UAV/UGV or operates as full software stack; runs on-edge, resilient in contested environments
- **GNSS-denied capability**: Enables autonomous navigation and swarming where GPS is jammed or unavailable
- **Natural language interaction**: Lowers operator burden, turning one person into a force multiplier
- **Proven operational deployment**: Technology validated in live military exercises with the Bundeswehr, not just lab demos

## Strategic Focus
- **Defence & sovereign autonomy**: Scaling spatial AI for European defence, strengthening independence from non-European suppliers
- **Multi-domain expansion**: Currently focused on aerial and ground platforms; targeting mixed swarms and potentially maritime systems
- **Continuous operational validation**: Participating in field exercises and innovation centre demonstrations (e.g., Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub, Erding Innovation Centre)
- **Attracting top talent**: 15 open positions (as of mid-2026), including drone engineers, computer vision specialists, and test pilots

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on cutting-edge AI that directly impacts national security and autonomous systems
- **Rapid growth**: 150% employee growth in the last year; small, agile team (~29 people) with room for impact
- **World-class peers**: Surround yourself with researchers and engineers from TU Munich, Nvidia, Tesla Autopilot, BMW, etc.
- **Open roles**: 15 active job postings including UAV Test Pilot, Drone Software and Controls Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, Technical Project Manager, and more [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/se3-labs)
- **Location & hybrid**: Office in Munich (Ungererstraße 175) with remote/hybrid flexibility for some roles; international presence (UK, Singapore, Switzerland)
- **Perks**: Involvement in live field operations, access to top-tier research networks, and participation in defence innovation ecosystem

## Sources
1. [se3.ai](https://www.se3.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/se3-labs)
3. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/542367-37)
4. [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/06/26/backed-by-lakestar-seedcamp-and-ewor-se3-unveils-spatial-ai-platform-for-autonomous-systems/)
5. [se3.ai/careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/se3)

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