Robotics Engineer - Detection & Tracking (gn) @ Space Defence Venture, Munich

About the venture We are a space defence company. Our mission is to keep order in orbit. Just as fighter jets secure the skies and navy ships secure the seas, we are building the systems that will protect the assets above us: the satellites our economies, security, and daily lives depend on. Space has become contested. As orbit fills with infrastructure and threats alike, Europe needs sovereign means to deter, defend, and uphold law and order beyond the atmosphere. We are at the rare stage where the founding team becomes the company. Today, there are three founders building the first systems, setting the technical direction, and proving the mission. The next people to join will be among the company’s first employees, not joining an existing machine, but helping build one. That means real authorship. The architecture, the engineering culture, the operating rhythm, and the standard of execution are still being formed. For the right person, this is the opportunity to help shape a European space defence company from its earliest days. We are looking for mission-driven people who want to defend the high ground, and who are ready to have honest debates about the use of force in space, its limits, and its ethics. Your Role & Responsibilities You will help build the autonomy architecture for a real-world robotic defence system. That means perception, tracking, state estimation, and control working together in real time on edge hardware. Your work will determine whether the system detects a target, understands what it is seeing, estimates its own motion correctly, and keeps the effector locked on. This is one of the first engineering roles. You will work directly with the three founders and have significant influence over core technical decisions from day one. You will not be handed a mature stack to maintain; you will help create the stack, test it in the real world, and push it toward operational use. The work will be broad and practical. You might be tuning a detector, de