Software Discipline Lead

Become Avular’s Software Discipline Lead – lead the team, influence technical strategies, and develop innovative robotics software!

At Avular we design, build, and test the hardware, software, electronics, and robotic platforms to tackle every mobile robotic challenge, from ground solutions to aerial and aquatic solutions. We do this with the greatest enthusiasm because we believe that Mobile Robotics will help solve some of the toughest challenges of our time.

As our Software Discipline Lead, you will contribute to the development of our robots’ software systems and lead and mentor our software engineers. You will have a hybrid role, combining your technical expertise with people management, significantly impacting our projects and team growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

• Supporting the personal and professional development of our software engineers. This includes having conversations about the team member’s goals and ambitions, year-end appraisal, 1-on-1 sessions, coaching, and providing input to HR on personnel-related matters.
• Leading by example in the Software Discipline, being the go-to person for any software advice. You will set up the way of working within the team (including tooling), ensuring continuous improvement and learning for the engineers.
• Ensuring a smooth collaboration between different disciplines, helping project managers choose the best team for each project, and promoting synergies between the projects and the engineers.
• Identifying the need for additional resources or skills to enable Avular’s development roadmap, including hiring new talent in collaboration with our recruiter.

YOUR SPECS

• Bachelor or Master’s in Computer Science, Embedded Systems, or similar.
• More than 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer working in product development within multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficient in C++ and Python; experience with embedded systems, RTOS, ROS2, or Qt is a pré.
• Skilled in software design and architectural principles.
• Good leadership and stakeholder management skills, ideally experience mentoring a team or junior software engineers.
• Excellent proficiency in both spoken and written English.

OUR OFFER

• Opportunity to join a rapidly growing tech company that’s revolutionizing the way robots are built, where you can make a difference.
• Be part of our young, passionate, multi-disciplinary team of professionals representing all disciplines of robot development.
• Plenty of room for personal development, new ideas, and opportunities.
• Game nights, Friday afternoon drinks, and all kinds of team events
• Enough time to rest and relax with 30 paid vacation days (excl. national holidays).
• Participation plan so you can benefit from the growth and success of our company.
• Non-contributory pension scheme.
• A reimbursement for your travel costs
• The best fuel: good coffee & weekly fresh fruit.
• Location:
  
  Strijp-T, Eindhoven, where you’ll be surrounded by other innovative companies.
• Possibility of working from home 1-2 days per week.

WHO ARE WE

We are a fast-growing high-tech robotics scale-up from Eindhoven. At Avular, we believe that robots are essential to sustain our society as a whole. Therefore, we aim to make the implementation of robots in practice as easy as possible. We develop the core technology for autonomous robots and build our own drones and driving robots from the ground up. We focus on modularity, making us versatile and adaptable to specific client wishes or changing market conditions.

We firmly believe in collaborating with other companies that have their own expertise outside the robotics domain. Our robots can be found in various industries, focusing on Agriculture and Construction, Industrial drones, Hospitality, Care, and Service.

“With Gorgeous Tech, we accelerate the creation of Mobile Robotic Applications that shape a Brighter Future for all.”

APPLY NOW

Are you our new colleague? Click on Apply or send your application with your CV to our Talent Acquisition Partner Eva Martin,  . Adding a motivation letter to your application is a plus.