
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 an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for our autonomous off-road software platform. The role focuses on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices that support building, testing, evaluating, and releasing complex software systems.
You will work closely with development teams to design CI/CD and cloud solutions for their challenges. A major part of the role is building and operating cloud-based systems for large-scale software testing and KPI evaluation, alongside more general responsibilities around build, release, and software distribution.
Design, implement, and operate CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI) covering:
software build and packaging
automated testing
release and distribution of software artifacts
Design and operate AWS-based infrastructure for CI-driven workloads, batch jobs, and testing environments.
Collaborate closely with development teams to design DevOps solutions that fit their workflows and technical constraints.
Develop and operate cloud-based systems for large-scale software testing and scenario-based KPI evaluation, including execution, result collection, monitoring, and access to evaluation data.
Apply infrastructure-as-code to manage cloud environments in a reproducible and maintainable way.
Ensure CI/CD and cloud infrastructure is reliable, observable, secure, and cost-aware.
Support teams with AWS best practices and reusable cloud patterns, while developers retain ownership of software logic, test scenarios, and configuration.
Your Background
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 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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