Emesent is a Brisbane-based world leader in autonomous LiDAR mapping and drone autonomy. Our flagship product, Hovermap, delivers autonomous LiDAR mapping in GPS-denied environments for the Mining and Defence sectors. Our newly launched GX1 brings high-performance handheld LiDAR to surveying and the built environment. Behind both sits a pipeline of future hardware products and a team that takes hard engineering problems from concept to the field.
The System Administrator reports to the Director of IT & AI and sits within a small IT team. The role is responsible for the design, operation, security, and continuous improvement of the organisation's corporate IT environment. This spans on-premises and cloud infrastructure, Microsoft and Linux platforms, identity and access management, SaaS integrations, endpoint fleet management, and internal engineering compute clusters.
The role is both hands-on and enabling, keeping day-to-day operations running reliably while helping engineering and business teams adopt new technologies, tools, and workflows safely. The successful candidate will act as a technical escalation point (L2/L3) for the service desk and will contribute to governance, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity initiatives across the business.
Emesent builds LiDAR mapping and autonomy technology for the world's most challenging environments. Founded in 2018 from Australia's CSIRO, our products — Hovermap, GX1, and the Aura software platform — capture spatial data in hazardous, GPS-denied, and hard-to-reach places for mining, survey, and infrastructure customers worldwide. With multiple product lines spanning hardware, desktop, and cloud, we're at an inflection point — and this role sits at the technical heart of it.
Emesent is a pioneer in Physical AI – the convergence of artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, and advanced spatial computing – enabling machines to understand, navigate, and map complex real-world environments without human intervention.
Founded in 2018, with deep connections to Australia's globally recognized CSIRO, Emesent provides the means to access spatial intelligence outside of GPS range and beyond line of site, and is designed to operate within the world’s most challenging environments. Building on its initial success within Australia, Emesent now supports clients across 40 countries through direct engagements and a global network of over 50 partners.
Emesent’s flagship product, Hovermap, is a mobile scanning unit that combines advanced collision avoidance and autonomous flight technologies to map hazardous and GPS-denied environments. Its award-winning technology utilizes innovative hardware, advanced algorithms, and machine learning to automate collection and analysis of the physical world. Equally capable above ground or underground, indoors or out, Hovermap is a complete mobile LiDAR mapping solution. Dubbed the ‘swiss army knife’ of survey mapping, Hovermap is uniquely versatile: it can be deployed via drone, quadruped robot, vehicle, backpack and a range of other accessories to map challenging, inaccessible areas.
Hovermap is currently used within mining, engineering and construction, public safety and defense, and offers applications across a growing range of use cases.
