Senior Embedded Software Engineer Belgium-Remote Belgium-Remote

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 each other.

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.

Join Axon and be a Force for Good

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Your Impact

The Axon SkyHero Firmware team in the Robotics New Ventures Pillar 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 ground robots are developed; we are actively working on truly disruptive innovative next‑generation Drone technology that we strongly believe will advance our mission to Protect Life.

The team specifically owns the “Lower Middleware” layers on a very powerful Embedded Linux System‑on‑Chip and the Flight Controller. “Lower Middleware” consists of high‑performance, low‑latency, user‑space daemons on a robotics‑optimized system bus. All firmware aspects related to “Flying” are handled by this team, and this team collaborates closely with an adjacent team of Controls and Vision Engineers, as well as Platform Board Support Package (BSP), Camera Imaging, and “Upper Middleware” teams, and hardware engineering. Rust is the preferred language, with C/C++ also used. Python is used for scripting and testing.

What You’ll Do

This role is based out of our Brussels office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite with some flexibility, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in‑office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Reports to: Robotics Firmware Engineering Manager

• Be part of a high‑performing team that designs and develops game‑changing Robotics products to Protect Life
• Architect, design and develop software and algorithms for Drones, Rovers and other Robots
• Develop in C/C++, Rust in resource‑constrained Embedded Systems and use a scripting language like Python to prototype
• Integrate sensors and actuators, complex logic and autonomous behavior
• Design and develop new use‑cases on Robots, translating requirements into features and tests
• Implement Robotics use‑cases in ROS2 and custom Robotics Frameworks
• Ensure high quality during the entire product lifecycle, designing and implementing unit tests, integration tests and CI pipelines
• Be hands‑on with prototyping, development, and debugging in all stages of the product lifecycle
• Collaborate with distributed hardware, software, firmware, control systems, manufacturing and compliance teams
• Be a team player, mentor, strong communicator and be ready and willing to support the team when needed

What You Bring

While all candidates will be considered, those candidates who have active robotics experience on mobile phone‑like System‑on‑Chip (SoC) using embedded Linux experience will have prioritization over those with microcontroller experience only. We also prioritize candidates who demonstrate having shipped a product from start to finish, and who stay with the product 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 7+ years of industry experience building commercial products
• Minimum 7+ years experience with C/C++, Python and/or other systems programming languages such as Rust
• Demonstrated track record of bringing commercial devices to the market
• Experience with performant inter‑process communication
• Strong experience with userspace Linux kernel