Senior Autonomy Engineer (all genders)

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Firma: STARK

UNTERNEHMENS-ID: 101537178

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About Us:

STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments.

Were focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems - not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today.

Your mission:

This is not a research role. We are looking for a Senior Autonomy Engineer to build the intelligence behind real UAV swarming - the algorithms that decide which vehicle attacks which target, how the swarm reorganises when conditions change mid-mission, and how 4+ loitering munitions coordinate autonomously to overwhelm adversary defences.

You will design and implement the swarm decision-making layer at the heart of Minerva Frontline, our Mission Management Software. This means building the optimisation and planning algorithms that sit above our existing mission planning engine, turning a set of operator-level objectives and battlefield conditions into coordinated, multi-vehicle strike missions - then dynamically re-planning them when the battlefield shifts.

This is Genesis-stage work. There is no off-the-shelf library for what were building. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Software Architect and our backend team to take swarm coordination from concept to live flight demonstration. If you want to solve hard multi-agent problems that have real consequences in the physical world, this is the role.

This position will be located in Berlin or in Munich.

Responsibilities:

The Swarm Brain: You will design and implement the task allocation engine that optimally assigns multiple vehicles to multiple targets - accounting for threat priority, approach geometry, timing constraints, and vehicle capabilities. Think auction-based allocation, Hungarian method, and constraint satisfaction - applied to coordinated strike.

Dynamic Re-Planning: You will build the systems ability to adapt mid-mission. When ISR reveals a target has moved, when a vehicle is lost, or when new targets appear, your algorithms re-evaluate the situation and generate updated plans - pushed to vehicles in flight.

The Optimisation Layer: You will build a new planning layer that sits above our existing static Mission Plan system. Your layer decomposes swarm-level objectives into individual vehicle assignments, then delegates path generation to the existing engine.

Simulation-First Development: You will iterate rapidly in our SITL (Software-in-the-Loop) simulation environment, testing swarm behaviours with 4+ virtual vehicles before anything flies. You will define the metrics that tell us whether the swarm is making good decisions.

Qualifications:

An Autonomy Builder: You have 5+ years of experience building autonomous decision-making systems - whether in robotics, aerospace, defence, automotive, or multi-agent AI. You have taken planning or coordination algorithms from research to working code in production or field environments.