Staff Navigation Engineer (m/f/d)

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About The Role

At ARX Robotics, you will help develop the navigation system that enables autonomous ground vehicles to operate safely and reliably in complex off-road environments. As a Staff Navigation Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping how robotic platforms plan, adapt, and execute missions across unpredictable terrain and demanding real-world conditions.

You will work across autonomy, perception, localization, and platform engineering teams to turn advanced navigation capabilities into deployable systems. Your work will directly influence the performance, resilience, and operational effectiveness of autonomous and teleoperated vehicles used in the field.

What You’ll Build

• Design and develop global and local path planning algorithms for autonomous navigation in unstructured and off-road environments

• Build navigation systems that enable safe, efficient, and terrain-aware traversal across complex outdoor terrain

• Integrate perception and terrain understanding data into cost maps and occupancy grids for obstacle-aware navigation

• Develop high-level autonomy logic using behavior trees or state machines for mission execution and recovery behaviors

• Validate navigation systems in simulation environments before deployment to real-world platforms

• Test and tune navigation performance in field environments, improving trajectory smoothness, robustness, and safety

• Collaborate closely with perception, localization, and software teams to integrate navigation into the broader autonomy stack

• Analyze field data and system performance to identify and resolve navigation challenges

• Optimize navigation pipelines for real-time robotic systems operating on edge computing hardware

• Contribute to the advancement of autonomous robotics technologies in a fast-moving defense technology…