Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

OUR VISION
When people use our technology to "bridge the gap" between the physical and digital worlds, they don't just capture reality - they create a new one. In this new reality, they are smarter, more productive, more streamlined, and more creative - because they have the digital foundation to build the world they want to live in.

That's what NavVis offers in all our products and services: the tools to not just map the world as it is, but to pave the way to a better future. To forge something new. Physical or digital, there is only one reality. And it's the reality NavVis empowers people to build better.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Does owning and scaling an internal data and analytics platform that powers decision-making across the organization appeal to you?

In this role, you will lead the evolution of our internal data and analytics platform — from both a technical and product perspective. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to define priorities, shape the platform roadmap, and ensure teams have reliable, trustworthy data to make informed decisions.

This is a player-coach role combining leadership, platform ownership, and hands-on execution. You will guide and coordinate a small team of data engineers while remaining deeply involved in pipeline design, data modeling, source integrations, and analytics delivery. You will help define how the organization uses data today and build the foundation for how it will use data in the future.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Own data quality standards, metric definitions, and data contracts to ensure reliable and trustworthy data
• Guide and coordinate a small data engineering team, providing technical guidance, test data integration, and day-to-day direction
• Design and contribute hands-on to ELT pipelines, data models, and source integrations across the platform
• Drive the ongoing Databricks migration from both a technical and product perspective
• Own the platform roadmap and OKRs in collaboration with senior leadership
• Gather and prioritize requirements from stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and the business and translate business needs into platform improvements, pipeline initiatives, dashboards, and analytics outputs
• Establish and manage a clear intake and prioritization process for platform and analytics requests
• Drive platform adoption through documentation, demos, and enablement activities

What Will Help You Succeed In The Role

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platform ownership, or related technical leadership roles
• Experience leading or mentoring small engineering or analytics teams in a hands-on environment
• Strong SQL skills and practical experience designing and maintaining ELT pipelines and data models
• Experience working with modern data platforms and warehouses, including Databricks and related tooling
• Hands-on experience with source integrations, orchestration workflows, and data quality management
• Experience building dashboards, analytics outputs, and data solutions for diverse technical and business stakeholders
• Strong product and platform mindset with the ability to prioritize based on impact, usability, and stakeholder value
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts, trade-offs, and priorities clearly
• Fluency in English as it is our official language of communication across the company

How We Will Know We Are a Perfect Match
Your recruiting partner for this role is Sylvie (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and up to 4 rounds of interviews, where we would love to discover your passion and interests, introduce you to who we are and what drives us, and finally understand how we can potentially add value to each other's growth.

How We Will Keep You Smiling

• It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year
• Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy
• Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport
• We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work!
• We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates
• An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility
• A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring
• Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus
• Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture!

ABOUT US
NavVis is a technologically-focused, global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions. Prominent manufacturers and laser scanning professionals around the world trust our ground-breaking technology, designed to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, we're helping organizations make smarter decisions and build more efficient, connected operations.

With over 300 people from around 60 nationalities and offices around the globe, we're proud to be a truly international and diverse place to work. As a scaling company, we bring together the agility, innovation, and entrepreneurial mindset of a startup with the professionalism and reliability of an established enterprise — offering our team the best of both worlds.

You'll be part of an open culture that values trust, collaboration, and transparency. We are proud of our environment where diverse talent can thrive and where feedback fosters individual growth and development. Do you share our passion for disruptive technology and want to be part of our dynamic journey? At NavVis, you'll own your projects, bring innovative ideas to life, and have real opportunities to grow your career and be recognized for your impact.

We derive our strength from our diversity.
NavVis' unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply.

Together with you, we build NavVis!
If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.

THE OPPORTUNITY
At NavVis, we build cutting-edge technology that powers spatial intelligence across industries — on a large, performance-critical C++ and Python codebase.

This is a software engineering role at its core. We're looking for a strong engineer who has chosen to specialise in
how software gets built
— the build systems, toolchains, and workflows that let hundreds of engineers write, test, and ship code faster. You'll design and build developer tooling, speed up local development, and remove friction across the engineering organisation.

You'll work closely with our infrastructure and DevOps teams, but
this is not a DevOps or platform-operations role.
Your focus is the developer
inner loop
— build speed, test reliability, toolchain design, and engineering productivity. Most of your time goes into building and improving developer-facing tooling, not operating production infrastructure.

If you have deep software-engineering fundamentals and enjoy pointing them at build systems, CI/CD, and a smooth end-to-end developer experience, you'll have the autonomy to shape how NavVis engineering builds and ships software.

How You Will Make An Impact

• You will design and build the tooling, frameworks, and automation that streamline how NavVis engineers write, test, and release code — treating developer tooling as a first-class software product, not glue scripts.
• You will improve the developer inner loop end to end: faster and more reliable builds, dependable tests, better local development environments, and modern toolchains across a large C++/Python codebase.
• You will own significant parts of our build and CI/CD systems — build graph, caching, toolchains — to raise developer velocity and cut friction across teams.
• You will solve hard engineering problems in build performance, hermeticity, and cross-language/cross-platform builds, applying the systems-design and debugging depth of a strong senior engineer.
• You will partner with engineering teams to find workflow pain points, set best practices, and drive measurable improvements in onboarding, build times, and productivity.
• You will act as a technical catalyst — evaluating new tools, prototyping, and influencing how the whole organisation builds and delivers software.

What Will Help You Succeed In The Role

• You are a strong software engineer first: at least 5+ years designing, building, and shipping production software, with real depth in C++ and Python.
• Experience with large and complex C++ codebases — build times, caching, cross-compilation, dependency management.
• Solid computer-science fundamentals — systems design, debugging, and writing robust, maintainable code. A Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on expertise with modern build systems and source-control workflows: CMake, Bazel (or comparable), Git, devcontainers.
• Strong experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar).
• Comfortable in Linux and on the command line (Ubuntu/Debian preferred), with Python/Bash scripting for automation.
• Confident with Docker / containers for local development and CI.
• A genuine passion for developer productivity, plus the communication and collaboration skills to influence other engineers.

Would be an added benefit:

• Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform, Helm).
• Exposure robotics, computer vision, or other systems/embedded domains.

How We Will Know We Are a Perfect Match
Your recruiting partner for this role is Rina (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and up to 4 rounds of interviews, where we would love to discover your passion and interests, introduce you to who we are and what drives us, and finally understand how we can potentially add value to each other's growth.

How We Will Keep You Smiling

• It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year
• Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy
• Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport
• We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work!
• We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates
• An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility
• A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring
• Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus
• Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture!

We derive our strength from our diversity.
NavVis' unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply.

Together with you, we build NavVis!
If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.

OUR VISION

When people use our technology to "bridge the gap" between the physical and digital worlds, they don't just capture reality - they create a new one. In this new reality, they are smarter, more productive, more streamlined, and more creative - because they have the digital foundation to build the world they want to live in.

That's what NavVis offers in all our products and services: the tools to not just map the world as it is, but to pave the way to a better future. To forge something new. Physical or digital, there is only one reality. And it's the reality NavVis empowers people to build better.

THE OPPORTUNITY

At NavVis, we build the world's most advanced mobile mapping systems - hardware & software platforms that capture spatial reality with extraordinary precision. The quality and reliability of every scan we deliver depends on the sensors we calibrate and ship with our products.

We treat calibration as a core pillar of NavVis' competitive differentiation. The team works across an exceptionally broad technical surface: sensor physics, camera and LiDAR geometry, IMU modelling, production processes, evaluation infrastructure, cloud and local services, and an emerging intersection with ML-based perception.

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead to head this team within the Mapping & Perception department. You will combine deep sensor expertise with genuine people leadership - setting technical direction, developing your engineers, and driving the calibration product forward with the ambition to build world-class devices. This is a role with high strategic ownership, close ties to device production, and strong cross-team connections.

If you care deeply about data quality, automation and smoothly running production processes and want to lead a team that is as knowledgeable about our sensors as the vendors who build them - this role is for you.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of calibration software engineers - setting technical direction, running regular 1:1s, supporting career development, and owning team performance together with the department lead.
• Own the calibration end to end: the software, the calibration process, and the documentation - from early-stage methodology design through production rollout and ongoing supervision of the calibration process for cameras, LiDARs, IMUs and other sensors.
• Drive the strategic direction for accuracy, repeatability and scalability of calibration - pushing toward less human-dependent processes, greater automation, and faster iteration cycles from development to production.
• Develop deep understanding of the sensors NavVis uses by building team knowledge of sensor design, behaviour, and limitations that rivals the vendors themselves.
• Serve as the primary technical interface between the calibration team, the production floor, and adjacent engineering teams while ensuring rapid feedback loops and smooth cross-functional collaboration.
• Anticipate and shape how calibration evolves alongside NavVis hardware: new sensors and new form factors, ML-based pipelines, and automation platforms.
• Identify, escalate, and resolve issues in calibration processes and tooling in close collaboration with the production teams, translating their feedback into software improvements.
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase where it matters - this role carries a meaningful expert component alongside its leadership responsibilities.

What Will Help You Succeed In The Role

• Master's degree or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, or a closely related field.
• 7-10 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on sensor systems - ideally in calibration, sensor fusion, or a closely adjacent domain such as SLAM or machine perception.
• Hands-on experience working in environments where software engineering intersects with physical device production or hardware integration.
• Direct experience calibrating cameras, LiDARs and/or IMUs, including knowledge of the underlying geometric models (intrinsics, extrinsics).
• Strong C++ development skills in a production codebase, and solid Python for tooling, scripting and automation.
• Demonstrated experience leading or technically mentoring a software team, including people development, task coordination and cross-functional stakeholder communication.
• Excellent communication skills in English - written and verbal - with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences including production and engineering management.
• A deep passion for sensors
• Proficiency in Linux

Would be an added benefit:

• Experience with C++ libraries such as Ceres, Eigen, OpenCV, PCL, ROS, or Boost
• Background in modelling and solving 2D/3D geometry optimization problems.
• Familiarity with SLAM systems and the relationship between calibration quality and mapping performance.
• Exposure to ML-based perception techniques and their implications for sensor and calibration design.
• Track record of contributing to or maintaining open-source software.

How We Will Know We Are a Perfect Match

Your recruiting partner for this role is Rina (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and up to 5 rounds of interviews, covering your technical depth in sensor systems and calibration, your leadership approach and people development philosophy, and how you collaborate across teams. We want to understand what drives you, share what drives us, and explore how we can grow together.

How We Will Keep You Smiling

• It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year
• Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy
• Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport
• We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work!
• We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates
• An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility
• A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring
• Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus
• Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture!

ABOUT US

NavVis is a technologically-focused, global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions. Prominent manufacturers and laser scanning professionals around the world trust our ground-breaking technology, designed to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, we're helping organizations make smarter decisions and build more efficient, connected operations.

With over 300 people from around 60 nationalities and offices around the globe, we're proud to be a truly international and diverse place to work. As a scaling company, we bring together the agility, innovation, and entrepreneurial mindset of a startup with the professionalism and reliability of an established enterprise — offering our team the best of both worlds.

You'll be part of an open culture that values trust, collaboration, and transparency. We are proud of our environment where diverse talent can thrive and where feedback fosters individual growth and development. Do you share our passion for disruptive technology and want to be part of our dynamic journey? At NavVis, you'll own your projects, bring innovative ideas to life, and have real opportunities to grow your career and be recognized for your impact.

We derive our strength from our diversity.

NavVis' unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply.

Together with you, we build NavVis!

If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.

OUR VISION
When people use our technology to "bridge the gap" between the physical and digital worlds, they don't just capture reality - they create a new one. In this new reality, they are smarter, more productive, more streamlined, and more creative - because they have the digital foundation to build the world they want to live in.

That's what NavVis offers in all our products and services: the tools to not just map the world as it is, but to pave the way to a better future. To forge something new. Physical or digital, there is only one reality. And it's the reality NavVis empowers people to build better.

THE OPPORTUNITY
At NavVis, we build spatial intelligence technology that depends on high-quality 3D data. This is a machine learning engineering role focused on 3D geometric data. We're looking for an experienced engineer to develop and deploy machine learning models that operate on point clouds and 3D reconstructions, while raising the team's expertise in applying ML and DL to 3D data and broadening how the team uses it.

You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, including AI researchers, software engineers, and product designers, to build and ship models for 3D point cloud processing, filtering, surface reconstruction, and computational geometry. Most of your time goes into moving these methods from research into production, not just exploring them.

If you have practical experience and a strong theoretical grounding in cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning techniques, and want to apply them to 3D geometric data, you'll have the scope to shape how NavVis approaches 3D machine learning.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Design and optimize machine learning and deep learning models for 3D point cloud data, covering filtering, denoising, registration, and surface reconstruction
• Own 3D data pipelines end-to-end, from preprocessing and augmentation to model adaptation and evaluation against ground-truth geometry
• Integrate 3D ML solutions into existing workflows and products by collaborating with other teams
• Adapt state-of-the-art 3D deep learning methods for production use, for example point-based architectures such as PointNet++, sparse voxel or convolutional networks, graph neural networks, and implicit or neural representations
• Build scalable, reproducible training pipelines for large 3D datasets
• Improve model performance by analyzing results against geometric and perceptual quality metrics

What Will Help You Succeed In The Role

• MS or PhD in computer vision, machine learning, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5-7+ years of hands-on experience applying machine learning and deep learning to point cloud processing, filtering, registration, or surface reconstruction, with a strong theoretical grounding in the underlying methods
• Familiarity with point cloud-specific deep learning architectures, for example PointNet++, sparse convolutional networks, graph neural networks, or transformer- and diffusion-based 3D models
• Strong Python skills for writing efficient, maintainable code, and hands-on experience with libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn
• Solid foundation in the mathematics of geometry, linear algebra, and optimization
• Fluent English communication skills, needed to collaborate with AI researchers, software engineers, and product designers

Would be an added benefit

• Experience with computer graphics and GPU programming (CUDA, ROCm, or OpenCL)
• Experience with neural 3D representations such as NeRF, Gaussian splatting, or signed distance functions
• Familiarity with ML experimentation and orchestration tooling, for example MLflow, Ray, Databricks, Slurm, or Weights and Biases
• Published research papers or open-sourced projects in a relevant ML/DL field
• Experience with C++ and 3D libraries such as Open3D, PyTorch3D, PCL, or CGAL
• Experience with Linux

How We Will Know We Are a Perfect Match
Your recruiting partner for this role is Rina (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and up to 4 rounds of interviews, where we would love to discover your passion and interests, introduce you to who we are and what drives us, and finally understand how we can potentially add value to each other's growth.

How We Will Keep You Smiling

• It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year
• Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy
• Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport
• We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work!
• We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates
• An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility
• A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring
• Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus
• Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture!

About Us
NavVis is a technologically-focused, global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions. Prominent manufacturers and laser scanning professionals around the world trust our ground-breaking technology, designed to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, we're helping organizations make smarter decisions and build more efficient, connected operations.

With over 300 people from around 60 nationalities and offices around the globe, we're proud to be a truly international and diverse place to work. As a scaling company, we bring together the agility, innovation, and entrepreneurial mindset of a startup with the professionalism and reliability of an established enterprise — offering our team the best of both worlds.

You'll be part of an open culture that values trust, collaboration, and transparency. We are proud of our environment where diverse talent can thrive and where feedback fosters individual growth and development. Do you share our passion for disruptive technology and want to be part of our dynamic journey? At NavVis, you'll own your projects, bring innovative ideas to life, and have real opportunities to grow your career and be recognized for your impact.

We derive our strength from our diversity.
NavVis' unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply.

Together with you, we build NavVis!
If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.