Axon The Senior Engineer on the Robotics Middleware & Applications team at Axon develops high-performance Linux daemons for drone robotics. The role includes architecting daemon infrastructure and mentoring for engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
The Axon Robotics Middleware & Applications team is part of the Robotics New Ventures Pillar and supports critical Drone offerings for Special Forces and Law Enforcement. These Drones work together harmoniously to provide Tactical Reconnaissance and Advantage during critical and stressful missions. Both aerial and ground robots are developed — see the full product portfolio at: https://www.axon.com/products/axon-sky-hero. We are actively working on truly disruptive, innovative next-generation Drone technology that we strongly believe will advance our mission to Protect Life.
The Robotics Middleware & Applications team owns the Upper Middleware layers on a powerful Embedded Linux System-on-Chip. This means building and maintaining high-performance, reliable Linux daemons and services that orchestrate all business-critical use cases for Robots, including:
Device cloud registration
Firmware Updates
Video Streaming Pipeline
Video Recording Pipeline
Logging & Diagnostics
Robotics use cases and more
Test Automation for all of the above use cases
Beyond these core responsibilities, this team collaborates very closely with Controls and Vision Engineers to help tune the Drone and contributes to advanced flying and maneuvering capabilities. The team also works closely with Platform BSP, Camera Imaging, Lower Middleware, and Hardware Engineering teams. Rust is the preferred language, but C/C++ is also heavily used. Python is used for scripting and test automation.
As a strong, senior engineer — either level 1 or level 2 — on the Robotics Middleware & Applications team, you'll be responsible for architecting and developing the daemon infrastructure that powers Robot business logic, while also contributing to a culture of engineering excellence through mentorship, design documentation, and best-in-class testing practices.
Working on these next-generation robotics products is not only a career-defining accomplishment, but a real opportunity to help advance the mission to Protect Life.
