
Driveblocks offers the driveblocks Autonomy Platform, a Physical AI solution for industrial vehicles focused on enabling autonomous tasks safely and reliably across various conditions. Applications…

Driveblocks offers the driveblocks Autonomy Platform, a Physical AI solution for industrial vehicles focused on enabling autonomous tasks safely and reliably across various conditions. Applications…
Headquarters: Munich / Garching, Germany
Founded: 2021
Product: Modular Physical AI autonomy platform for off-road & industrial vehicles
Key markets: Agriculture, construction, mining, off‑road logistics, defense
Recent funding: Pre‑Series A €3.5M (Feb 2026); Seed €2.2M (Sep 2023)
Autonomous operation of industrial/off‑road vehicles in unstructured, harsh environments (perception, safety, sensor fusion, mapless navigation).
2021
DeepTech
€2.2M
Participants included angel investor Joachim Drees and Friedrich & Wagner.
€3.5M
Existing investors Bayern Kapital, Rethink Ventures and angel investor Joachim Drees participated.
“Backed by VC and angel investors including FORWARD.one, Bayern Kapital, Rethink Ventures, Joachim Drees and Friedrich & Wagner”
Your Role We are seeking an Expert Engineer - Systems & Safety to further strengthen and scale the safety, reliability, and quality foundations of our autonomous off-road software platform.
This is an expert-level, hands-on engineering role with system-wide responsibility. You will work closely with the CTO and engineering teams to evolve our safety and quality practices, advance runtime monitoring and reliability mechanisms, and systematically prepare the organization for future audits and certifications.
Beyond technical ownership, this role carries a strong growth potential: as driveblocks continues to scale, you will play a key role in defining standards, establishing best practices, and building sustainable structures for safety and quality across the organization. Over time, this includes the opportunity to grow into a leadership role, onboarding and mentoring additional engineers.
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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!
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