Senior Engineer – Robotics Middleware & Applications

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and ...

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

The Axon Robotics Middleware & Applications team is part of the Robotics New Ventures Pillar and supports critical Drone offerings for Special Forces and Law Enforcement. These Drones work together harmoniously to provide Tactical Reconnaissance and Advantage during critical and stressful missions. Both aerial and g...

Candidates with active Robotics experience on mobile phone-like System-on-Chips (SoC) using embedded Linux will be prioritized over those with Microcontroller-only experience. We also prioritize candidates who have shipped a product from start to finish and stayed with it post-release to learn from its in-market performance.
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent
Minimum 5+ years of industry experience building commercial products
Minimum 5+ years of experience with C/C++, Python, and/or Rust
Demonstrated track record of bringing commercial devices to market
Strong experience with Linux user-space daemon development and service architecture
Strong experience with performant inter-process communication (e.g. ZeroMQ, Zenoh, D-Bus, or similar)
Experience building and owning device lifecycle features such as firmware OTA updates, device pairing, or video pipeline management
Strong understanding of Systems Architecture, with the ability to implement complex, multi-service, interrelated systems
Strong understanding of Operating Systems, Concurrency, and Networking concepts
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and QA processes, including test automation frameworks
Solid Software Engineering background (algorithms, data structures)
Engineering with AI : This role's interview process includes an AI-assisted coding loop designed to reflect how we actually build software here. Rather than a traditional whiteboard or solo-coding exercise, you'll work through a problem using an AI coding assistant as a required collaborator — and you'll be evaluated on how you work with it, not just what you produce. Specifically, we're looking for engineers who can: clarify ambiguous requirements before diving into a solution; break problems into well-scoped prompts and iterate when AI output is wrong or incomplete; critically review AI-generated code rather than accepting it at face value; explain the underlying fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design tradeoffs) of whatever gets built, regardless of who typed it; and bring a real testing and debugging strategy to the table.

We also want to hear about how you've grown your own AI fluency — what you've experimented with on your own initiative, where it's worked, where it hasn't, and what you've learned along the way.
We're not grading for "prompt engineering" skill alone. We're looking for strong software engineers who know how to direct, question, and elevate AI-assisted work — not just accept it.
Experience with Robotics simulation tools such as Gazebo
Experience with Computer Vision techniques (SLAM/VIO), Control systems, or Trajectory Optimization
Experience with MAVLink, PX4, or similar Flight Controllers
Experience with ROS2 System Bus
Experience with video streaming protocols and pipelines (GStreamer, RTSP, WebRTC)
Experience with the Yocto build system