Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Intern or Recent Graduate)

Flink Robotics is a fast-paced startup, out of ETH Zurich's Computational Robotics Lab, building autonomous robots that can handle any item - including ones they've never seen before. We're revolutionising material handling, from stacking boxes to sorting parcels and unloading goods.

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Intern or Recent Graduate) who loves debugging systems and turning real-world data into working software. You'll be out with our field team at customer sites, helping adapt and troubleshoot our autonomy stack as it meets the conditions of each deployment.

• Eager to join a VC-backed startup and take on real responsibility from the start

• Passionate about robotics: from perception and motion to autonomy and control

• Proactive, curious and a clear communicator (fluent English, German is a strong plus)

• Ready to travel 50-100% to customer sites and adapt to different teams and fast-changing environments on the shop floor

• Swiss/EU citizen, existing Swiss work permit, or a degree from a Swiss university; able to work in Switzerland without visa sponsorship

• A degree (completed or in progress) in computer science

• Strong coding skills in C++; Python and Linux are a plus

• Experience in software troubleshooting

• Builder mentality: you can implement algorithms from scratch, from prototype to tests and iterations

• Independent problem solver and creative thinker

• Low-ego collaboration; people love working with you

• Bonus: prior robot deployments, personal/academic robotics software projects

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  Support testing, tuning and debugging of our autonomy stack in the lab and on-site

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  Help plan and execute on-site software installations for a smooth customer handover

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  Diagnose and fix software issues remotely and on-site

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  Feed field data back to engineering to improve our models and unlock new use cases