Rosenxt Group
Robotics Software Engineering Manager
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Location: Bristol, UK
Approach: Hybrid Remote, typically 2-3 days per week in the office
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Rosenxt is revolutionizing robotic perception and autonomous underwater systems, shaping intelligent sensing capabilities for robotics in complex and unstructured environments. To accelerate this development, we are growing our world-class engineering team at our location in Bristol, UK.
About the Role
The Robotics Software Engineering Manager at Rosenxt leads and develops a multidisciplinary engineering team, driving performance, growth, and a strong collaborative culture. The role focuses on organizational leadership, aligning team objectives with company strategy, and ensuring effective delivery through structured processes and cross-functional coordination.
What You Can Expect
- Lead and shape a growing robotics software team with high autonomy and ownership.
- Take on a central leadership role within an international, distributed organization.
- Drive team development through hiring, mentoring, and establishing a strong engineering culture.
- Influence how the team works by defining processes, structures, and ways of collaboration.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams across the UK and Germany to align on goals and priorities.
- Balance people leadership with organizational responsibility in a dynamic, evolving environment.
- Have a direct impact on team effectiveness, delivery outcomes, and long-term capability building.
- Contribute to strategic decisions by translating company objectives into actionable team plans.
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What You Bring
- 5+ years in an engineering leadership or team lead role, including direct people management (regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and structured career development).
- Demonstrated experience hiring and scaling robotics software teams, from defining roles and running interviews to onboarding and integrating new team members.
- Proven ability to establish and refine team processes (e.g., planning, road-mapping, estimation, delivery tracking) that enable predictable, high-quality output in robotics projects.
- 5+ years of experience developing production-grade robotics software in domains such as perception, SLAM, sensor fusion, motion planning, or control, ideally across both research and industrial environments.
- Experience collaborating with universities, research labs, or robotics institutes and translating research outcomes into robust, deployable software for real-world applications.
- Hands-on experience with real-world deployment of robotic or autonomous systems (e.g., industrial, underwater, logistics, or field robotics), with an understanding of safety, reliability, and operational constraints.
- Familiarity with robotics software ecosystems and frameworks (e.g., ROS/ROS 2) and modern software engineering practices in C++ and/or Python, including testing, simulation, and data-driven validation.
- Ability to translate company and research roadmaps into clear team plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes, balancing strategic priorities with day-to-day delivery.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in distributed, cross-functional environments, comfortable representing the team in collaborations with research institutions, industry partners, and internal product/operations functions.
- High adaptability, initiative, and a continuous-improvement mindset, with a track record of identifying capability or organizational gaps and addressing them through hiring, coaching, upskilling, or restructuring.
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Look forward to
- Development and career opportunities
- Flexible, hybrid working.
- 30 days annual leave + bank holidays.
- Company pension scheme where all employees receive a standard 10% employer contribution, with no obligation for employee contributions.
- Company sponsored life insurance and private medical insurance.
- Cycle scheme provided by Green Cycle Initiative.
- Competitive remuneration package
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