Embedded Engineer

📍 Location : Zurich (on-site)

📅 Start Date: ASAP

⌛ Employment: Full-time

At Bubble Robotics , we’re building the autonomous workforce for the ocean.

The 21st century will be decided offshore - from energy resilience and climate stability to national defense. Yet the ocean remains the least observed, least automated, and least understood environment on Earth.

Our constellation of small, resident robots lives at sea—inspecting offshore infrastructure, monitoring ecosystems, and securing critical assets continuously—without costly vessels or divers. They accelerate our understanding of the ocean and unlock the $3 trillion blue economy.

We’ve just closed a multi-million dollar pre-seed round, secured $5M+ in LOIs from top offshore energy operators, and are backed by leading VCs and ocean strategics. Our team includes alumni from NASA JPL, ETH Zurich and the world’s top robotics and climate labs.

You'll collaborate to the hardware & firmware development of the core control units of our USV and AUV platforms, the Vehicle Control Unit and the Electronic Control Units. The job is to take prototype systems and turn them into something that survives the field: write the low-level code, design and integrate the hardware, debug the strange interactions, then go watch it run from bench to lake to open water.

You'll work closely with Carlo, our lead electrical/embedded engineer, with real technical ownership from day one.

• Develop and maintain embedded hardware and firmware for our Vehicle Control Unit (VCU) and Electronic Control Unit (ECU) — the core control systems of our USV and AUV platforms
• Support the team across the full embedded development lifecycle: prototyping, testing, integration, debugging, and validation
• Write clean, well-documented C/C++ code for real-time microcontroller environments
• Contribute to peripheral integration across subsystems, through communication, power, sensor and control interfaces
• Work closely with Carlo to increase development speed, firmware reliability, and hardware/software integration quality
• Participate in field tests alongside the core engineering team, from bench to lake to offshore deployments

Background

• 2–3 years of experience in embedded engineering
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python
• Experience developing software for microcontrollers or other embedded systems
• Experience with CAD environments for fast PCB (KiCAD) and mechanical (FreeCAD) prototyping
• Experience with electronic/electrical simulation environments (SPICE)
• Experience with Git based version control and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Comfortable debugging hardware/software interactions in real systems
• Hands-on, fast-moving mindset — you like building, testing, breaking, and improving
• Excited to work close to the hardware and close to the field

Bonus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with HIL
• Experience with robotics or autonomous systems
• Experience with ROS and ****control systems
• Experience with communication protocols and peripheral integration
• Experience in marine, automotive, drones, or other field robotics environments

Practical

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of an open-ended problem.
• Comfortable working in a small team and contributing across disciplines.
• Interest in maritime robotics and underwater autonomy.

Languages

• English mandatory. French and/or German a strong plus. Spanish a plus.

• Small team, fast pace, high ownership.
• We expect people to manage their work independently.
• We communicate openly about problems and challenges.
• We make pragmatic decisions and focus on execution.
• Transparency matters more to us than optics.

• Build what no one else dares: persistent underwater autonomy by bringing spacetech to the ocean.
• Join a world-class team with deep robotics and aerospace backgrounds.
• Ship fast: From prototype to ocean in weeks, not years.
• Equity and impact: Be part of a deep-tech company unlocking the $1T+ blue economy
• Work on meaningful applications, from offshore wind to biodiversity monitoring and defense
• Competitive salary and equity package

Apply via our Notion page. All applications are reviewed through the portal only; individual outreach can’t be responded to.