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Robotics Field Applications Engineer

Breaker· Engineering
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Austin, TXFull timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Customer-facing R&D role at speed, bridging customer needs with technical feasibility. Owns integration of Avalon with ground vehicles, sensors, and mission-specific autonomous behaviors; prototypes, field-demonstrates, and informs product direction.

Responsibilities

  • Prototype and integrate new capabilities that win contracts and close deals.
  • Own platform integrations end to end: ground vehicles, maritime systems, new sensor configurations.
  • Build features that answer a specific customer mission requirement.
  • Deploy systems in the field, run demonstrations, troubleshoot live, and act as Breaker's technical authority with customers.
  • Find the capability gaps and technical blockers through hands-on integration, and drive them into the core team's priorities.
  • Work with the US missions lead to turn customer requirements into deployable technology.
  • Keep a tight loop with Sydney engineering on what the field needs and why it matters.
  • Travel often for customer engagements, field testing and live demonstrations.

Qualifications

  • A degree in robotics, mechatronics, computer science, engineering or a related technical field.
  • Robotics development experience deploying software on real hardware in operational environments.
  • Python and/or C++ as a primary language, and experience deploying to edge devices - NVIDIA Jetson preferred.
  • ROS or ROS2, and edge deployment on robotic platforms.
  • Docker or other containerisation.
  • A track record of delivering under pressure: customer demonstrations, competitive evaluations, live deployments.
  • Comfort troubleshooting live and keeping a system working in difficult conditions.
  • Clear communication across distributed teams, and the judgement to represent Breaker to customers and partners.
  • Willingness to travel frequently.

Skills

Required:Robotics software developmentPythonC++Edge deploymentROS/ROS2DockerField demonstrations
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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