Senior Robotics Autonomy Engineer Planning, Decision & Intercept

Promethion Industries is a European defence technology company building autonomous supremacy systems for aerial and multi-domain operations. We design tightly integrated autonomy stacks in Europe to enable decisive autonomy for NATO-aligned forces focusing on defensive and counter-system capabilities including anti-UAS and resilient autonomy under contested conditions.

• Build the autonomy layer of our high-speed aerial robotic systems.

• Convert mission objectives target state and vehicle state into real-time actions and trajectories.

• Develop algorithms for dynamic rendezvous pursuit interception and terminal approach.

• Build target-motion prediction and intercept-point estimation for moving airborne targets.

• Develop real-time path planning trajectory generation and replanning under uncertainty.

• Account for aircraft capabilities energy maneuverability sensing uncertainty and changing target behaviour.

• Build decision and behaviour logic that allows the system to adapt continuously during a mission.

• Combine classical robotics optimization MPC and learned approaches where appropriate.

• Explore reinforcement learning imitation learning and policy-based autonomy where they provide meaningful advantages.

• Work closely with perception estimation and control engineers to close the autonomy loop.

• Take algorithms from simulation into real aircraft and validate them through repeated flight testing.

• Strong robotics or autonomous-systems background with significant real-world deployment experience.

• Strong experience with motion planning trajectory generation or autonomous decision-making.

• Deep understanding of kinematics dynamics and optimization.

• Experience with dynamic environments and moving-target problems.

• Experience with trajectory optimization optimal control MPC or comparable approaches.

• Strong C skills and good Python skills.

• Experience deploying autonomy algorithms onto real robotic systems.

• Strong understanding of uncertainty and its implications for decision-making and planning.

• Ability to design algorithms that operate under real-time compute constraints.

• Hands-on attitude and willingness to participate directly in flight testing and system debugging.

• UAV / fixed-wing autonomy.

• High-speed aerial robotics.

• Rendezvous pursuit or intercept problems.

• Target-motion prediction.

• Aggressive flight.

• Reinforcement learning on real robots.

• Imitation learning / learned policies.

• PX4.

• ROS2.

• Optimal control and trajectory optimization.

• Aviation defence or space systems.

Even if you dont tick every box we encourage you to apply - wed love to hear from you.