
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 span agriculture, construction, mining, off-road logistics, and defense. Their platform utilizes fine-tuned Physical AI models and software for environment understanding and safety, leveraging a unique crowdsourcing approach for data collection and model tuning, which significantly reduces AI-related costs. The platform is modular and hardware-agnostic, designed for integration with existing vehicle software and hardware, and emphasizes robust, all-weather perception and scalable operation in unstructured environments. Key advantages include improved safety, cost-efficiency, and faster development cycles for autonomous vehicle deployment, building on the team's experience from the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

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 span agriculture, construction, mining, off-road logistics, and defense. Their platform utilizes fine-tuned Physical AI models and software for environment understanding and safety, leveraging a unique crowdsourcing approach for data collection and model tuning, which significantly reduces AI-related costs. The platform is modular and hardware-agnostic, designed for integration with existing vehicle software and hardware, and emphasizes robust, all-weather perception and scalable operation in unstructured environments. Key advantages include improved safety, cost-efficiency, and faster development cycles for autonomous vehicle deployment, building on the team's experience from the Indy Autonomous Challenge.
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”
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Your Role
We are seeking a Head of System Architecture & Infrastructure
to lead the
design, implementation, and evolution of the technical backbone for our autonomous systems. A core responsibility for this role is to
define and implement a
comprehensive safety concept
for the software platform, ensuring robust, reliable, and safe operation and work towards relevant safety certifications.
This is a senior leadership role
with responsibility for software system architecture, software performance benchmarking, and infrastructure. As driveblocks is a fast-moving, dynamic environment, the role requires
regular hands-on work.
Must-Have Qualifications
System Architecture & Safety Leadership
– Minimum 3 years of experience designing and leading software platform architectures for complex, multi-component systems in safety-critical applications using modern C++.
Hands-On Infrastructure Expertise
– Proven track record of building scalable software infrastructure, including establishing performance benchmarking frameworks, automated monitoring, or reliability metrics for production systems.
Safety-Critical Mindset
– Demonstrated experience applying software safety principles in practice, such as fault-tolerant system design, formal verification, or runtime monitoring, with improvements in system robustness/safety compliance.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
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, based in Munich, builds a robust and certifiable technology platform for Off-Road autonomy across verticals such as agriculture, construction, and defense. The technology combines a universal neural network foundation model with geometrically interpretable sensor fusion to create the next-generation perception software suite. It operates without costly pre-mapping and constant connectivity, enabling operation even in GNSS-denied environments.
Our platform runs on production-grade embedded hardware, ensuring reliable operation in dirty, dusty, and complex 3D environments. It navigates through vegetation and rough terrain — essential for off-road autonomy.
We are a growing deep-tech company with a strong technical foundation, focused on long-term customer value and continuous improvement. At driveblocks, innovation thrives through learning and ownership — the core of our culture.
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