Senior Robotics Engineer

iKnowHow Group is a dynamic, international technology company with 24+ years of experience and a team of 300+ talented professionals delivering innovative technology solutions across Energy, Telecommunications, Banking & Financial Services, and the Public Sector.Aperion Robotics, part of IKH Group, focuses on the development and commercialization of advanced robotic systems designed to operate reliably in demanding real-world environments.We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Robotics Engineer to join our growing Robotics team and take technical ownership of key autonomy, navigation and system integration activities across our robotic platforms.Responsibilities:Design, develop and maintain robotics software using C++ and Python within ROS/ROS 2 environments.Develop and improve localization and state-estimation pipelines using data from GNSS/RTK, IMUs, wheel odometry, LiDAR and other onboard sensors.Design and improve autonomous navigation capabilities, including global path planning, local motion control, obstacle avoidance and recovery behaviors.Develop autonomy and motion-control functionality for outdoor mobile robots and magnetic crawlers operating in marine environments.Improve robot behavior in challenging operational conditions, including degraded GNSS reception, sensor noise, wheel slippage, limited connectivity and partially observable environments.Design robust mission-execution and fault-handling mechanisms that allow robots to operate reliably for extended periods.Analyze field data, logs, sensor recordings and performance metrics to identify failures and improve system reliability.Participate in robot commissioning, sensor calibration, hardware bring-up and field validation.Integrate robotics software with embedded controllers, sensors, actuators, backend services and operator-facing applications.Design modular, maintainable and testable software architectures for production robotic systems.Translate product and operational requirements into technical specifications, implementation tasks and validation procedures.Conduct code reviews and contribute to software quality, development practices and technical documentation.Mentor Junior and Associate Robotics Engineers and support their technical development.Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, embedded, backend and frontend engineers, as well as product and field-operation teams.Participate in technical discussions with customers and stakeholders when required.RequirementsBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.At least 4 years of professional experience in robotics, autonomous systems or a closely related software-engineering field.Strong software-development experience in modern C++/Python as well as strong hands-on experience with ROS 1/2.Solid understanding of mobile-robot localization and state estimation.Experience integrating multiple sensors such as IMUs, wheel encoders, GNSS/RTK receivers, LiDARs, depth cameras or other perception sensors.Good understanding of sensor fusion concepts, coordinate frames, transformations, uncertainty and covariance.Experience with autonomous-navigation systems, including path planning, local control and obstacle avoidance.Good understanding of mobile-robot kinematics and motion control.Strong knowledge of Linux-based robotic systems.Experience with Git and collaborative software-development workflows.Experience debugging complex software and system-integration issues on physical robots.Ability to analyse logs and field data and systematically identify the root cause of failures.Professional working proficiency in English, both written and spoken.Willingness to participate in occasional field testing and commissioning activities in Greece or abroad.Nice to have:Experience with EKF/UKF-based state estimation, LiDAR odometry, visual odometry or SLAM.Experience with GNSS/RTK-based outdoor navigation and navigation in GNSS-degraded environments.Experience with navigation frameworks such as Nav2, Move Base Flex or equivalent custom navigation stacks.Familiarity with real-time systems, CAN bus, serial communication, motor controllers and embedded interfaces.Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for robotics software.Experience with robotics simulation environments such as Gazebo, Ignition, Webots or Isaac Sim.Previous technical-leadership or mentoring experience.BenefitsCompetitive compensation package.Flexible hybrid working model, combining office and remote work.Private medical insurance.Career development and growth opportunities.Continuous training and learning opportunities through personalized seminars.A stable and enjoyable working environment within a multidisciplinary engineering team.

iKnowHow Group is a dynamic, international technology company with 24+ years of experience and a team of 300+ talented professionals delivering innovative technology solutions across Energy, Telecommunications, Banking & Financial Services, and the Public Sector.

Aperion Robotics, part of IKH Group, focuses on the development and commercialization of advanced robotic systems designed to operate reliably in demanding real-world environments.

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Robotics Engineer to join our growing Robotics team and take technical ownership of key autonomy, navigation and system integration activities across our robotic platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain robotics software using C++ and Python within ROS/ROS 2 environments.

• Develop and improve localization and state-estimation pipelines using data from GNSS/RTK, IMUs, wheel odometry, LiDAR and other onboard sensors.
• Design and improve autonomous navigation capabilities, including global path planning, local motion control, obstacle avoidance and recovery behaviors.
• Develop autonomy and motion-control functionality for outdoor mobile robots and magnetic crawlers operating in marine environments.
• Improve robot behavior in challenging operational conditions, including degraded GNSS reception, sensor noise, wheel slippage, limited connectivity and partially observable environments.
• Design robust mission-execution and fault-handling mechanisms that allow robots to operate reliably for extended periods.
• Analyze field data, logs, sensor recordings and performance metrics to identify failures and improve system reliability.
• Participate in robot commissioning, sensor calibration, hardware bring-up and field validation.
• Integrate robotics software with embedded controllers, sensors, actuators, backend services and operator-facing applications.
• Design modular, maintainable and testable software architectures for production robotic systems.
• Translate product and operational requirements into technical specifications, implementation tasks and validation procedures.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to software quality, development practices and technical documentation.
• Mentor Junior and Associate Robotics Engineers and support their technical development.
• Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, embedded, backend and frontend engineers, as well as product and field-operation teams.
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and stakeholders when required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

• At least 4 years of professional experience in robotics, autonomous systems or a closely related software-engineering field.
• Strong software-development experience in modern C++/Python as well as strong hands-on experience with ROS 1/2.
• Solid understanding of mobile-robot localization and state estimation.
• Experience integrating multiple sensors such as IMUs, wheel encoders, GNSS/RTK receivers, LiDARs, depth cameras or other perception sensors.
• Good understanding of sensor fusion concepts, coordinate frames, transformations, uncertainty and covariance.
• Experience with autonomous-navigation systems, including path planning, local control and obstacle avoidance.
• Good understanding of mobile-robot kinematics and motion control.
• Strong knowledge of Linux-based robotic systems.
• Experience with Git and collaborative software-development workflows.
• Experience debugging complex software and system-integration issues on physical robots.
• Ability to analyse logs and field data and systematically identify the root cause of failures.
• Professional working proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
• Willingness to participate in occasional field testing and commissioning activities in Greece or abroad.

Nice to have:

• Experience with EKF/UKF-based state estimation, LiDAR odometry, visual odometry or SLAM.
• Experience with GNSS/RTK-based outdoor navigation and navigation in GNSS-degraded environments.
• Experience with navigation frameworks such as Nav2, Move Base Flex or equivalent custom navigation stacks.
• Familiarity with real-time systems, CAN bus, serial communication, motor controllers and embedded interfaces.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for robotics software.
• Experience with robotics simulation environments such as Gazebo, Ignition, Webots or Isaac Sim.
• Previous technical-leadership or mentoring experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Flexible hybrid working model, combining office and remote work.
• Private medical insurance.
• Career development and growth opportunities.
• Continuous training and learning opportunities through personalized seminars.
• A stable and enjoyable working environment within a multidisciplinary engineering team.

At IKH we solve hard problems. We provide custom-built automation solutions to industry and software solutions to the public and private sector. We can acquire your data, communicate, store and process it to produce insights and present them in a responsive and intuitive manner. Our tailor-made services culminate in cyber-physical systems where the physical and computational elements are intertwined to augment human capabilities. Our mechanical and electrical engineers have brought to life close to twenty robotic solutions for the off-shore, oil & gas, nuclear, and the wind power industry. We have designed and engineered autonomous robots to perform ultrasonic testing of wind turbine blades or to replace tracked trenching machines operating in the subsea environment. More than 40 large scale web development and IT projects for private and public institutions, local subsidiaries of international organizations, and national authorities have been undertaken and successfully delivered by our software development teams. Over the past six years, we have raised our sales six-fold and established offices in Luxembourg and London. Our headquarters are in downtown Athens (Neo Psyhiko) and our robotic team is headquartered in the outskirts of greater Athens. At IKH we hire the best & brightest. We believe that talented individuals give credence to the maxim ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ and we strive to foster an environment where freedom, responsibility, innovation, and self-discipline flourishes. After all, a great workplace is synonymous to stunning colleagues, where employees don’t wait to be told what to do and behave like owners. Job candidates can seek for opportunities in four areas: Robotics & IoT: A world-class team of electrical, mechanical, and software engineers with deep expertise in mechanical design and control, in data-driven intelligence, and in embedded systems. We design and engineer robotic solutions and our machines can sense, act, and adapt to demanding environments. We collaborate with our clients’ team, we ideate, we prototype and if need be we solicit funding from public or private sources. The Digital Government team identifies, articulates, and analyzes business needs, translates them into specs, and implements fully the IT solution. We work with the private and public sector on process automation and optimization and on workflow and reporting solutions and when needed we apply advanced methodologies like lean and six sigma. We can engineer business intelligence and cognitive enterprise platforms to augment human decision making and we can ensure an organization’s Total Quality Compliance through an integrated and ISO-compliant management system. EU Institutions Business Unit (EUI): Our Luxembourg office markets our digital government expertise primarily to EU institutions. Large government ought to adjust to and reap the benefits from the omni-channel, omni-content era. Our software development team has the experience and the caliber to help governments and international organizations embrace interoperability and openness and present their content in a device agnostic way. Healthcare IT: evorad© is our RIS/PACS product suite. It is designed to cover a radiology department's needs from the moment the patients walk into the hospital until the moment they check out with a CD containing image files and their diagnostic report in hand. evorad© is the premier PACS solution of Greece’s National Health System and is used not only to process thousands of examinations daily but also as a teaching tool in most University Hospitals and Medical Schools. With over 10 years’ track record in the local market, evorad© has recently set up an office in Saudi Arabia with the mandate to market the PACS solution in the wider MENA region. IKH is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, and gender identity. More information on our company can be found at http://www.iknowhow.com/ and at our YouTube channel.

At IKH we solve hard problems. We provide custom-built automation solutions to industry and software solutions to the public and private sector. We can acquire your data, communicate, store and process it to produce insights and present them in a responsive and intuitive manner. Our tailor-made services culminate in cyber-physical systems where the physical and computational elements are intertwined to augment human capabilities.

Our mechanical and electrical engineers have brought to life close to twenty robotic solutions for the off-shore, oil & gas, nuclear, and the wind power industry. We have designed and engineered autonomous robots to perform ultrasonic testing of wind turbine blades or to replace tracked trenching machines operating in the subsea environment. More than 40 large scale web development and IT projects for private and public institutions, local subsidiaries of international organizations, and national authorities have been undertaken and successfully delivered by our software development teams.

Over the past six years, we have raised our sales six-fold and established offices in Luxembourg and London. Our headquarters are in downtown Athens (Neo Psyhiko) and our robotic team is headquartered in the outskirts of greater Athens.

At IKH we hire the best & brightest. We believe that talented individuals give credence to the maxim ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ and we strive to foster an environment where freedom, responsibility, innovation, and self-discipline flourishes. After all, a great workplace is synonymous to stunning colleagues, where employees don’t wait to be told what to do and behave like owners. Job candidates can seek for opportunities in four areas:

• Robotics & IoT: A world-class team of electrical, mechanical, and software engineers with deep expertise in mechanical design and control, in data-driven intelligence, and in embedded systems. We design and engineer robotic solutions and our machines can sense, act, and adapt to demanding environments. We collaborate with our clients’ team, we ideate, we prototype and if need be we solicit funding from public or private sources.
• The Digital Government team identifies, articulates, and analyzes business needs, translates them into specs, and implements fully the IT solution. We work with the private and public sector on process automation and optimization and on workflow and reporting solutions and when needed we apply advanced methodologies like lean and six sigma. We can engineer business intelligence and cognitive enterprise platforms to augment human decision making and we can ensure an organization’s Total Quality Compliance through an integrated and ISO-compliant management system.
• EU Institutions Business Unit (EUI): Our Luxembourg office markets our digital government expertise primarily to EU institutions. Large government ought to adjust to and reap the benefits from the omni-channel, omni-content era. Our software development team has the experience and the caliber to help governments and international organizations embrace interoperability and openness and present their content in a device agnostic way.
• Healthcare IT: evorad© is our RIS/PACS product suite. It is designed to cover a radiology department's needs from the moment the patients walk into the hospital until the moment they check out with a CD containing image files and their diagnostic report in hand. evorad© is the premier PACS solution of Greece’s National Health System and is used not only to process thousands of examinations daily but also as a teaching tool in most University Hospitals and Medical Schools. With over 10 years’ track record in the local market, evorad© has recently set up an office in Saudi Arabia with the mandate to market the PACS solution in the wider MENA region.

IKH is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, and gender identity.

More information on our company can be found at http://www.iknowhow.com/ and at our YouTube channel.