
SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…

SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…
Product: Bio-robotic insect swarms with sensor/control backpacks and SWARM OS for mission orchestration
Use cases: Defense, security, law enforcement, search & rescue, infrastructure inspection
Founded: 2024
Funding: €13M total (€10M seed announced Jun 24, 2025; €3M pre-seed)
Headquarters: Kassel, Germany (with U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco)
Autonomous bio-robotics for defense, security, emergency response, and infrastructure inspection in environments inaccessible to conventional robotics.
2024
Biotechnology
€3M
€10M
Announced move from R&D toward field pilots following round
“Backed by a consortium including Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic”
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At SWARM Biotactics , we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack that enables wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.
Biorobot swarms combine the agility of biology with AI, sensors, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.
We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re pushing the edge of what’s possible in every domain: from biology to embedded hardware to swarm intelligence.
🚀 Join us at the frontier — and help create the first generation of living machines.
💡 Your Role
You will be the first dedicated Quality Engineer ensuring that our entire biorobotics pipeline — from the insect-mounted hardware to the cloud data platform — is reliable, safe, and production-ready.
You’ll design and run tests across:
You will build a systematic testing culture : scalable test plans, regression suites, integration tests, system tests, hardware-in-the-loop setups, and automated quality gates for everything from edge devices to cloud pipelines.
🧠 Your Profile
You’re an engineering generalist with strong QA fundamentals and the curiosity and courage to test systems that have no precedent.
Must-haves:
Nice-to-haves:
🌍 Why SWARM Biotactics
⚡ Join the Swarm
If you’re ready to create the impossible — hands-on, every day — we want to meet you.
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