Senior Backend Engineer- Edge

Location: Petah Tikva (IL)

Description

Airobotics is building the next generation of autonomous drone systems, enabling scalable aerial operations for industrial, security, and critical infrastructure environments.

We are establishing a new Edge Applications team within our Software R&D department, focused on developing high-performance applications that run directly on drone and edge computing platforms. These applications bridge real-world robotics, autonomy, AI, and mission-critical operational workflows.

As a Software Developer on the team, you will design and build software components that operate close to the hardware and real-time systems powering autonomous drones. You will work across embedded edge environments, communication systems, AI pipelines, mission logic and operational tooling.

This is a hands-on engineering role with strong impact on product architecture, system capabilities and future platform evolution

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape a new strategic engineering team from the ground up
• Work on cutting-edge autonomous aerial systems deployed in real-world operational environments
• High ownership, technical challenges, and direct impact on product direction
• Collaborative and multidisciplinary engineering culture
• Dynamic startup environment with advanced technological challenges

Responsibilities

• Design and develop edge applications running on autonomous drone platforms and edge computing devices
• Build reliable, scalable, and high-performance software for real-time operational environments
• Develop integrations between onboard systems, AI modules, sensors, and mission-control platforms
• Optimize software for constrained compute, network, and power environments
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, embedded, AI, DevOps, and product teams
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making for the new platform
• Debug and resolve complex system-level and distributed operational issues
• Contribute to software quality through testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and engineering best practices

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent military/industry experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong proficiency in Python or C++
• Experience building distributed systems
• Familiarity with Linux-based environments
• Experience with networking, asynchronous systems, or real-time applications
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced R&D environment

Advantage:

• Experience with robotics, drones, autonomous systems, or edge computing
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS2
• Experience with video streaming, computer vision, or AI inference pipelines
• Experience with Docker, or containerized edge deployments
• Knowledge of embedded Linux systems
• Experience with cloud-edge architectures
• Military technological unit background