Senior Software Engineer, Production Suite

About Six Robotics At Six Robotics, we build intelligent software that gives Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) the ability to collaborate, adapt on the fly, and execute missions that were previously impossible. From our base in Oslo, our 70+ experts in defence, software, and AI develop our flagship autonomy and swarm platform used by both government and industry. In close partnership with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), we move fast from concept to live deployment, often in the field alongside end users. We work with advanced hardware and software, a modern tech stack, and missions that demand both technical mastery and operational discipline. Everyone is close to the action, from deep technical problem-solving to field operations. We move fast and value clarity, integrity, and teamwork in everything we do. At Six Robotics, every person executes with precision, adapts to changing conditions, and strengthens the team. Getting in is hard, and you’ll be challenged every day. But if you have the skill, the discipline, and the drive to push your limits and always be sharpening your blade, you’ll find no better place to deliver real-world impact while collaborating and learning from the best in the field. About The Role We are setting up a new team to build our Production Suite: the software product that gets our autonomy platform onto new drone hardware. This is not about assembling the physical drone. It is about everything that has to happen in software once the hardware is built, so a finished drone leaves production running on our stack. As we move toward supporting production volumes in the thousands, installing our software on a new platform needs to become a high quality workflow someone runs at the production site, not something that pulls on engineering capacity per unit. Production Suite is how we get there. It ships alongside each new release of our autonomy stack and wraps installation, configuration, acceptance testing, and sign-off into a guided flow. The work is less about deep architecture and more about getting a lot of moving parts to work together cleanly: software packaging, deployment to edge devices, test automation, Linux plumbing, and an operator experience reliable enough that a non-engineer at a production site can run it on their own. We are looking for several engineers to join this team early. As one of the first in, you will help shape what we build and how we build it. You will have a broad responsibility from low-level flashing and test orchestration up to the interface the production operator actually interacts with. What You Will Do

• Build the Production Suite: a software package that ships to a production site and takes a drone from factory-fresh hardware to a unit running our autonomy stack and passing acceptance
• Design and implement the tooling that flashes our software onto new drone platforms, configures it, runs factory acceptance tests, and reports results back to Operations
• Work across the stack as needed: Linux command line, Python scripting, Docker and Kubernetes, SSH and remote execution, web APIs, data formats, basic hooks and integrations
• Reuse and adapt parts of our existing end-to-end test suite so factory acceptance tests share a foundation with how we test in engineering
• Make the whole thing usable for production operators: clear enough that the workflow is mostly pressing next, red or green, with no hidden steps
• Work closely with Operations, Test Automation, Hardware Enablement, and the teams building the autonomy stack itself to keep integration reliable end to end

Why This Role Matters Production Suite is one of the pieces of work where getting it wrong directly caps how much of our core product reaches the field. If we cannot scale production, we cannot scale the company. This team sits on the critical path for delivering volume, and the people we hire into this role will have an outsized effect on whether we hit it. What We Are Looking For We are open to varieties of seniority in this team. Generally, we are looking for a broad, practical senior engineer. Someone who has built this kind of system before, or something close to it, and knows what good looks like when hardware, software, and a factory floor have to work together. You are not scared of the mix. You move between Python, a Dockerfile, a Kubernetes manifest, an SSH session, and a JSON-to-YAML conversion without losing the thread. You are pragmatic. You care more about shipping something that works than about the purest architecture. We believe the right candidate brings

• Several years of experience as a software engineer, ideally at companies that ship physical products (hardware, robotics, consumer electronics, networking, industrial devices)
• Comfort on the Linux command line
• Ability to move around a modern tooling landscape (containers, orchestration, CI/CD, remote execution, scripting) without needing deep expertise in any one of them. If you have not used Docker or Kubernetes heavily but can pick them up where needed, that works for us
• Exposure to deploying software onto devices or edge hardware, not only to servers or the cloud
• A tooling mindset: you notice manual work, you automate what you do twice, you think in pipelines and feedback loops
• A strong drive to solve problems and find a way through, even when the path is not obvious and the spec is not clean. This matters more to us than any specific tool on your CV
• Ability to own problems from end to end and work across team boundaries
• Clear communication in English, written and spoken

It is an advantage if you have:

• Worked on production, provisioning, or manufacturing tooling at a hardware company before
• Experience with Python in an infrastructure or tooling context (this will be a large part of the day-to-day, but we do not require it up front)
• Background in edge deployment, factory acceptance testing, or device lifecycle management
• Exposure to operator-facing GUI or workflow tools
• Exposure to safety-critical, defence, or regulated environments
• We care more about range and judgement than about a specific stack. If you come from Go, Rust, or something else entirely but have built this kind of system well, we want to talk to you.

Why You Should Join At Six Robotics, we're not just building software - we're redefining how unmanned systems operate in the real world. If you're driven by meaningful problems, technical depth, and the chance to shape something from the ground up, you'll find your place here.

• Work on problems that matter

Our technology helps unlock smarter, safer, and more adaptable UAV operations in defense and industry, solving real challenges with direct, tangible impact.

• Lead the shift in a hardware-dominated space

We're bringing modern AI, autonomy, and scalable software into a field that's long relied on rigid, pre-programmed systems, to change how UAVs are designed, deployed, and managed.

• Build from zero, shape the future

Join early and help define the core systems, tools, and culture of a company that’s still being built - where your ideas, code, and decisions will have a lasting influence.

• Work with purpose, supported by great benefits You'll be part of a mission-driven team that values clarity, integrity, and collaboration, offering competitive pay, equity potential, strong insurance and pension plans, and ongoing learning opportunities.

Our Recruitment Process

• Screening interview with one of our recruiters to get to know you better (30 min)
• Meet & Greet with someone from the team to learn more about us (60 min)
• Take-home case assignment, to be solved in your own time, followed by a live coding session and an in-depth interview on the case and the specifics of the role (90 min)
• Final interview with our CTO and Head of People (45 min)

Reference check followed by an offer if everything goes well. We consider applications continuously, so don't hold off with applying if this looks interesting. Our Commitment to Inclusion At Six Robotics, we are committed to creating a workplace built on respect, integrity, and collaboration. We value different perspectives and experiences, and we believe that diversity within our team strengthens both our work and our culture. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and help us build technology that makes a real impact. Security Clearance Requirement All employees at Six Robotics are required to undergo a security clearance due to our close collaboration with the Norwegian Armed Forces. While prior clearance is not necessary, the clearance process will be initiated as part of onboarding.