2654982 driveblocks GmbH München General & Admin Standard driveblocks Chief of Staff (m/f/d) Your Role We are looking for an exceptional Chief of Staff to work directly with our CEO. This is a highly visible role at the center of the company. You will help shape strategy, support fundraising activities, drive key business development initiatives, and ensure that our most important priorities are executed with speed, focus, and precision. We are seeking someone who combines structured strategic thinking with a strong bias for action. Ideal candidate thrives on solving complex challenges, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, and taking ownership of initiatives that directly impact company growth and long-term success.

The role requires a high degree of flexibility, ownership, and commitment. You should be comfortable operating in a dynamic environment, engaging with stakeholders across Europe and beyond, and travelling internationally on short notice when business needs require it. The main tasks include:

Strategic Business Development (Defense applications)

Together with the CEO and Director of Business Development (Defense), shape and advance our strategy and market positioning, especially in the defense sector, translating our vision into actionable initiatives across German, NATO, Ukraine and other international markets
Build strategic relationships with key industry players, such as military forces, defense primes and defense tech players. Organize and execute testing and experimentation campaigns in close collaboration with the technical team
Be a core part of the commercial growth team with a hands-on and get things done mentality, ensuring alignment across business units to drive business development & sales initiatives across defense & civil applications.

Fundraising & Investor Relations

Shape the equity story in close collaboration with the CEO and prepare investor materials, pitch decks, and financial models
Shape & drive ongoing communication with current and potential investors
Identify & position driveblocks according to capital market opportunities and drive internal activities to support this positionings

Company Growth

Collaborate closely with the broader management team on operational topics of scaling the company
Take ownership of special projects that drive efficiency, scalability, or innovation across the organization as well as internal communication

]]> Your Background

3+ years of experience in Tier-1 management consulting, venture capital, or a high growth venture backed company in the technology sector

First experience within the German defense sector, ideally already touchpoints with the emerging defense tech ecosystem across Germany, NATO and Ukraine

Excellent verbal & written board level communication skills in German & English

Willingness & ability to dive into ambitious challenges on day one

High urgency on driving company and business growth combined with the willingness to take on whatever needs to get done to achieve our goals

Collaborative approach & strong team-player mindset

We understand that not everyone will meet all the criteria! If you see yourself in these points, we’d love to learn more about you! ]]> About Us driveblocks develops off-road ground autonomy that works under harsh and challenging conditions. We build systems designed for operation in 3D terrain, vegetation, and heavy dust and dirt, where 100% reliability is core to success, even in GNSS-denied environments.

Working with multiple OEM partners across agriculture, construction, and defense, our focus is to deliver value to vehicle operators and solve the toughest challenges when deploying Physical AI in real world applications. Every deployment helps us to gather the operational data required to build the next generation of reliable and safe autonomous driving systems.

From our office in Munich, we operate as a focused, highly ambitious team with deep expertise in autonomy, Physical AI, and embedded software engineering. We move quickly and set high standards. If you want to build autonomy that is deployed, tested, and operated in the field - we’d love to hear from you!]]> Working at driveblocks

Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan

]]> How To Apply

Prepare your CV & additional documents

Show your unique motivation

We look forward to receiving your application! ]]> permanent experienced full-time 2-5 Chief of Staff,EuropeanDefence,Autonomy,PhysicalAI,Strategy general_and_other_business_and_strategic_management business_and_strategic_development 2026-06-02T15:29:14+00:00 2475128 driveblocks GmbH München Sales & Business Development Standard driveblocks Director of Business Development - Defense (m/f/d) Your Role We are seeking a dynamic Director of Business Development - Defense to drive new business opportunities and expand existing customer relations across the full customer lifecycle in the defense market. This high-impact role offers the opportunity to secure sustainable growth and shapes how our platform delivers value in the military applications. Your main tasks are:

Own the end-to-end customer lifecycle for the defense market: business development, sales, deal closure, renewals, and long-term account management.
Develop and execute a go-to-market strategy for defense sectors which aligns with company vision, budgets, and timelines.
Build and maintain strategic relationships with decision-makers of government agencies, armed forces within the NATO alliance, defense primes, politicians and operators to position the capabilities of driveblocks' technology.
Shape the product roadmap in collaboration with platform engineering. Match market needs with technical capabilities to build value-driven offerings.
Design and refine business models and pricing strategies aligned with defense procurement cycles, and long-term value generation.
Build a deep understanding of market dynamics and competitors to inform strategy and positioning.

]]> Your Background

5+ years in business development and sales within the defense industry.

Direct experience with defense procurement cycles and contracting structures is a must.

Proven track record in designing and executing repeatable sales workflows for complex, deep-tech, enterprise-grade products.

Demonstrated ability to scale revenue from early traction to significant growth.

Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills to navigate complex and high-stakes discussions empathetically and effectively.

Willingness and flexibility to travel on short notice based on business needs.

Active security clearances for Germany & allied nations is a plus.

First experiences with autonomy, AI or robotic systems is a plus.

Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan

Flexible working hours

]]> How To Apply

Upload your CV and additional documents directly through our platform

Receive feedback on your application within a few days

Show your motivation in a one-on-one conversation with us

]]> permanent experienced full-time 5-7 Business Development,Sales,Enterprise,Deep Tech,Go-to-Market,AI,Defence business_development_and_new_accounts sales_and_business_development 2026-01-01T12:38:06+00:00 2645752 driveblocks GmbH München Data & AI Standard driveblocks Expert Perception Data Engineer (m/f/d) Your Role As an Expert Perception Data Engineer you scale the data workflows that power the next-generation of off-road autonomy systems. You own the full data lifecycle from ingestion and curation to automated scenario mining, dataset generation, embeddings-based retrieval, and validation workflows.

In this hands-on engineering role, your designs and implementations have a critical impact on enabling the robust and safe performance of our software in challenging off-road conditions. Your main tasks are:

Designing and scaling large-scale perception data pipelines for terabytes of incoming multimodal sensor data.
Developing automated dataset curation and scenario mining systems for edge cases and safety-critical situations.
Building embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search pipelines for perception data selection and analysis.
Maintain tooling for dataset versioning, metadata management, annotation orchestration, and quality assurance to meet certification requirements.
Improving infrastructure for high-throughput data processing, cloud-native workflows, and distributed compute pipelines.
Driving automation around data operations, labeling processes, and deployment feedback loops from field operations.

]]> Your Background

6+ years of professional experience building large-scale data processing systems for machine learning or robotics applications

Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++

Experience working with multimodal sensor data such as camera, lidar, and radar

Familiarity with dataset management tooling, embeddings, vector databases, semantic retrieval, and similarity search systems

Strong ownership mindset and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving engineering environment

Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly across engineering and customer-facing teams

Degree in computer science, robotics, engineering or a related field(Bachelor, Master, or PhD)

Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan

Flexible working hours

]]> How To Apply

Upload your CV and additional documents

Show your unique motivation

]]> permanent experienced full-time 5-7 Deep Tech,AI,Data Engineer,data curation,data pipeline,data management software_and_system_architecture it_software 2026-05-22T15:14:21+00:00 2573097 driveblocks GmbH München Systems & Architecture Standard driveblocks Senior Robotics Engineer - Motion Planning (m/f/d) Your Role We are seeking a Senior Robotics Engineer - Motion Planning to strengthen and scale the decision-making capabilities of our autonomous off-road software platform.

This is a hands-on, system-critical engineering role with ownership over how our system interprets the driveblocks environment model and acts on it safely and reliably in challenging off-road conditions. You will work closely with engineering and customer deployment teams to adapt and extend our planning and navigation stack - evolving toward more customized solutions tailored to driveblocks’ needs.

Beyond implementation, you will contribute to conceptual system design, helping shape how the execution part of our software should evolve as we scale across vehicle platforms and industries.

Adapt, configure, and extend the driveblocks navigation stack for real-world deployments in challenging off-road environments
Develop custom planning components (planners, controllers, cost functions, behaviors) as system requirements evolve
Design and implement robust motion planning pipelines under real-world constraints
Contribute to ego state estimation (sensor fusion, localization robustness) and its integration with planning
Reason about complex environmental representations and translate them into safe, efficient robot behavior
Identify and address failure modes in planning and localization, improving system robustness and safety
Collaborate closely with platform software and customer deployment teams to ensure performance targets
Contribute to architectural decisions around planning, state estimation, and system integration

]]> Your Background

Master’s, PhD, or 3+ years of experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or related domains

Strong hands-on experience with C++ and system-level software development

Experience with motion planning systems (e.g. ROS2 Nav2, sampling-based / optimization-based approaches)

Practical experience working on real robotic systems (beyond simulation)

Solid understanding of robot kinematics, control, and planning constraints

Experience debugging complex system behavior across multiple interacting components

Strong system-level thinking and ability to execute feature development in a fast-paced environment

Familiarity with state estimation / sensor fusion (e.g. EKF, UKF, or similar approaches)

Experience with localization systems (GNSS, LiDAR-based, or multi-sensor setups)

]]> About Us driveblocks develops off-road ground autonomy that works under harsh and challenging conditions. We build systems designed for operation in 3D terrain, vegetation, and heavy dust and dirt, where 100% reliability is core to success, even in GNSS-denied environments.

Working with multiple OEM partners across agriculture, construction, and defense, our focus is to deliver value to vehicle operators and solve the toughest challenges when deploying Physical AI in real world applications. Every deployment helps us to gather the operational data required to build the next generation of reliable and safe autonomous driving systems.

From our office in Munich, we operate as a focused, highly ambitious team with deep expertise in autonomy, Physical AI, and embedded software engineering. We move quickly and set high standards. If you want to build autonomy that is deployed, tested, and operated in the field - we’d love to hear from you!]]> Working at driveblocks

Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan

Flexible working hours

]]> How To Apply

Upload your CV and additional documents directly through our platform

Receive feedback on your application within a few days

Show your motivation in a one-on-one conversation with us

]]> permanent experienced full-time 2-5 motion planning,robotics software_and_system_architecture it_software 2026-03-23T10:39:03+00:00 2668593 driveblocks GmbH München Deployment Standard driveblocks Solutions & Deployment Engineer (m/f/d) Your Role We are seeking a Solutions & Deployment Engineer to deploy the driveblocks off-road autonomy stack to a broad variety of target vehicle platforms. A core responsibility of this role is to apply, monitor, and benchmark the driveblocks software in customer and internal development vehicles to achieve maximum performance. Planning and conducting investor and customer product demos is a key part of this role.

As a Solutions & Deployment Engineer, you are responsible for the full journey of our customers – from drafting the first technical concept to configuring, testing and deploying the software. You ensure that the driveblocks software meets the application requirements in an embedded, real time-critical environment. You ensure high performance and quality through system simulations and software component testing on-site under real-world conditions across multiple domains and countries.
]]> Your Background Must-Have Qualifications

Strong analytical skills to quickly understand customer requirements, debug application software, and familiarize with new vehicle and deployment platforms.
Hands-on expertise in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or real-time embedded systems, with strong coding skills in C and C++.
Experience with dockerized deployments and Linux-based operating systems
Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with complex technical challenges and requirements.
Strong team-player and the ability to communicate complex technology in a clear and straight-forward way to match customer and project expectations.
Willingness to travel on short notice to support customer pilots and deployments across domains and countries.
Strong system-level thinking and ability to execute feature development in a fast-paced environment
Valid German driver's license class B.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Familiarity with ROS2 or micro-ROS.
Familiarity with different embedded compute units including edge accelerators.
Experience with modern software engineering tools, including version control, continuous integration and testing as well as cloud-based development processes.
Degree in computer science, informatics, engineering or related (Bachelor, Master, or PhD).

Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan

Flexible working hours

]]> How To Apply

Upload your CV and additional documents directly through our platform

Show your unique motivation

]]> permanent experienced full-time 1-2 Solutoins Engineering,Deployment,Customer Impact,Robotics,Physical AI,Autonomous Vehicles software_and_system_architecture it_software 2026-06-11T16:30:30+00:00