
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" that incorporate advanced sensors, secure communications, edge AI, and swarm-intelligence coordination to enable remote control and autonomous group behaviors. It is a deep‑tech B2B provider delivering bio-robotics and autonomous swarm systems for defense, security, police, and search-and-rescue organizations. Products are designed for stealthy, scalable, persistent ISR and for integration with tactical systems in denied, cluttered, or high-risk environments.

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" that incorporate advanced sensors, secure communications, edge AI, and swarm-intelligence coordination to enable remote control and autonomous group behaviors. It is a deep‑tech B2B provider delivering bio-robotics and autonomous swarm systems for defense, security, police, and search-and-rescue organizations. Products are designed for stealthy, scalable, persistent ISR and for integration with tactical systems in denied, cluttered, or high-risk environments.
Company: SWARM Biotactics — bio-robotics startup building controllable insect swarms for ISR and tactical use
Founded: 2024
Headquarters: Kassel, Germany (U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco)
Latest funding: €10M seed announced Jun 24, 2025 (total €13M including €3M pre-seed)
Key investors: Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, Capnamic
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Tactical ISR, security, disaster response, and inspection in environments unsuitable for traditional robotic platforms.
2024
Biotechnology
€3M
€10M
Round included Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic
“Participation from multiple institutional VCs including Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic indicates institutional venture backing”
At SWARM Biotactics , we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack enabling sensing, wireless control, and secure communication.
Our systems rely on large amounts of heterogeneous, real-world sensor data tightly coupled with autonomy, perception, and learning.
To scale our technology, data is a core system , not a byproduct.
We are looking for a senior engineer who takes full ownership of dataset generation and management — from defining what data is required, to collecting it in the real world, to making it usable, traceable, and reliable for downstream algorithms.
🚀 Join us at the frontier — and build the data foundation for the first generation of living machines.
💡 Your Role — Data & Dataset Ownership
You will own the entire lifecycle of data used in our robotic systems.
Your work will directly determine the quality, robustness, and scalability of our perception, learning, and autonomy stacks.
This role is about ownership, structure, and intent — not just processing existing data.
What you’ll do
🧠 Your Profile
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🌍 Why SWARM Biotactics
⚡ Join the Swarm
If you want to own data as a first-class system and shape how real-world autonomous systems learn and improve, we’d love to hear from you.
✨ Application note
Please include a concrete example where you took end-to-end responsibility for data or datasets , including the key decisions you made and the trade-offs involved.