Senior AI Systems Engineer – Robotics/Swarming

About the role

As a Senior AI Systems Engineer, you will define the tactical brain and behavioral logic for next-generation autonomous drone swarms. You will work with advanced behavioral frameworks, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and high-fidelity simulation environments to build robust, scalable decision-making functionality for real-world, unpredictable environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy decision-making frameworks using RL, imitation learning, and behavior-tree architectures for coordinated behavior across platforms.
• Develop and optimize algorithms for decentralized task allocation, collective intelligence, and multi-vehicle strategic coordination under communication-constrained or GPS-denied conditions.
• Build and utilize ROS2 SITL environments to stress-test behavioral logic, neural networks, and reactive behaviors before hardware deployment.
• Engineer pipelines to move trained models and policies off the GPU cluster and onto edge robotics hardware without performance degradation.
• Collaborate closely with the perception and flight control teams to ensure AI-driven behaviors interface cleanly with safety-critical C++ flight software.
• Profile and debug behavioral system performance under embedded constraints, ensuring stability and robustness in field deployments.
• Contribute to system-level architecture discussions on autonomous decision-making, heuristic planning, and multi-agent reliability.

Required skills

• Robotics AI
• Multi-agent reinforcement learning
• Autonomous behavioral modeling
• Python
• C++
• ROS2
• SITL
• MDPs
• Game theory
• Trajectory planning
• Motion planning
• Aerial Swarming

Nice to have

• German language

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or related field

About the Company

Stark is a defence technology company that equips NATO Allies and their partners with next-generation autonomous defence platforms and AI-driven software. They combine elite engineering talent with agile technology and an AI-native operational culture to solve complex defence challenges.