Job title

Systems Engineer – Teleoperation & Autonomous Driving

Company

LAKOTA Project

Location

Spain (Navarra preferred) · Hybrid / On-site

Workplace type

Hybrid

Employment type

Full-time · Permanent

Seniority level

Mid–Senior / Senior

Job function

Engineering · Telecommunications · Software Engineering · Systems Engineering

Industries

Automotive · Robotics · Autonomous Vehicles · Electric Mobility · Industrial Automation

At LAKOTA Project, we develop advanced electric mobility platforms with real-time teleoperation and autonomous driving, designed for industrial, logistics and urban environments.

We are looking for a Systems Engineer – Teleoperation & Autonomous Driving to lead the design and integration of our real-time teleoperation system and its interaction with autonomous driving modules.

This is a key technical role, with direct impact on product, industrialization and real-world deployments.

• End-to-end system architecture: vehicle ↔ communications ↔ edge/cloud ↔ control center.
• Design and optimization of real-time video streaming and telemetry (low latency, resilience).
• Definition of 4G/5G communication strategies, QoS, traffic prioritization and redundancy.
• Integration with embedded systems and autonomous driving stacks.
• Lab and field testing, metrics definition and system monitoring.
• Technical documentation and cross-team collaboration.

Education

• Degree or Master’s in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Electronics, Industrial Engineering, Robotics or similar.

Experience & Skills

• Proven experience in low-latency, high-availability systems.
• Real-time streaming technologies (WebRTC, RTP/RTSP, GStreamer or equivalent).
• IP networking, TCP/UDP, latency/jitter analysis.
• Linux and embedded systems.
• Programming in C++ and/or Python.

Nice to have

• 4G/5G, edge computing / MEC.
• ROS / ROS2, CAN, DDS.
• Docker, distributed systems.
• Cybersecurity for connected systems.
• Automotive, mobile robotics or industrial vehicle background.

• Participation in a real product with operational deployments.
• High technical ownership and decision-making capacity.
• Advanced engineering environment (R&D + industrialization).
• Competitive compensation based on experience.

Apply via LinkedIn or contact us directly.

Project overview: www.lakotaproject.com

• (Technical project video available in the post)
• https://youtu.be/Q5H7Sbv7btM