Field Robotics Engineer

📍 Location : Zurich, CH base/ Global Deployments (lake + offshore across the world as well as potentially in contested environments)

📅 Start Date: Q4 2026

⌛ 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.

We're looking for our first Field Engineer who will own deployments from day one. You will help shape how we build this function as we scale, and ultimately build and lead their own field team.

• Customer-facing position, first technical point of contact for customers and partners, requires strong relationship building and communication skills
• Manage end-to-end deployments from scoping to on-site delivery, training, and ongoing support
• Perform customer projects including payload and API integrations
• Travel 60%+ of the time, including last-minute trips — this is a core part of the role, not an exception

Background

• Master's degree minimum in robotics, engineering, or a related field
• 2–5 years of relevant experience, or less if your field exposure is strong
• Experience in aquatic or offshore environments — lake operations, maritime, subsea, or similar
• Industry familiarity with offshore wind, shipping and ports, or defense a strong plus

Technical

• ROS (required) — building, modifying, and debugging ROS-based systems in the field under live deployment conditions
• API integration experience (required)
• Network and cybersecurity knowledge a strong plus

Practical

• Valid driver's license (required)
• Boat driving license a plus
• Willingness to travel and work in demanding, sometimes unpredictable conditions

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