Application Engineer for Automated Vehicle Marshalling (AVM)

Embotech is an award-winning software scale-up developing cutting edge autonomous driving technology and solutions for autonomous vehicles, with focus on private ground applications such as trucks at port terminals and passenger cars in factories. We are delivering safe autonomous transportation by leveraging the real-time optimization technology that we have been developing since 2012.

We are looking for an Application Engineer who is passionate about deploying, analysing and improving Embotech’s Automated Vehicle Marshalling (AVM) solution. We offer an exciting role in a fast-growing company with attractive conditions and flexible hours.

Embotech develops innovative products in a modern and dynamic environment, and you can expect an international atmosphere, with highly skilled colleagues with a passion for excellence and efficiency. We are looking for highly motivated people to help us solve one of the most complex challenges of today and take our company to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and debug Embotech’s Automated Vehicle Marshalling (AVM) solution at customer sites, test areas and factory environments

• Drive the rollout of Embotech’s AVM solution to new customer sites according to the agreed rollout timeline

• Serve as a frontline technical contact for customers during launch, ramp-up, and ongoing operations

• Improve system performance through root cause analysis

• Prepare system configuration improvements through simulation and coordinate their implementation with all relevant stakeholders

• Identify recurring customer pain points and translate them into actionable product or feature requirements

• Report test results and issues efficiently and consequently to development and business teams.

• Support deployments that may require work outside standard business hours during critical launch, maintenance, or recovery windows.

• Collaborate with product management, software engineers and controls engineers to deliver a well integrated full autonomous driving stack Our preferred starting time for this position is ASAP

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, or similar

• Hands-on experience with advanced control systems methods, particularly Model Predictive Control (MPC)

• Proven experience in real-world system deployment, debugging complex technical systems, and working with digital twins

• Comfortable with customer communication and shiftwork

• Willingness to travel 50% of the time to customer sites (car factories mainly in Europe and US) & work outside standard business hours (compensated fairly)

• Willingness to relocate to the United States for a 12-month assignment

• Fluency in spoken and written German and English

• Experience with Linux (native or WSL)

• Self-driven team player with hands-on mentality

• Knowledge of system modelling and analysis techniques

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements

• B driver’s license (special training for test vehicles training will be provided by Embotech)

We look forward to receiving your application documents (CV, diplomas and reference letter) by email: [email protected]