Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Application, Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will design the robot abstraction layer, implement middleware wiring, and develop state machines for complex robot platforms, including diagnostics tools and integration tests.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Robot abstraction integration: working in robot abstraction layer code - implementing the abstraction surface that maps your platform's hardware capabilities (joints, limbs, end-effectors, sensors) to the shared platform API. Conceptually similar to authoring a ros2_control hardware interface, an OROCOS RTT component, or a vendor-SDK adapter - but more vertically integrated.
- Middleware wiring for your platform: typically ROS 2 launch graph + ros2_control YAML + DDS QoS on platforms using the standard middleware path; OROCOS RTT component pipelines on platforms with hard-RT control loops that exceed ROS 2 callback timing budgets; Apex.OS on SIL/PLd-certified configurations (Industrial MM). Sensor topic plumbing and ObsAssembler wiring regardless of middleware choice. Partnered with the Robotics Middleware Engineer for the broader middleware stack architecture.
- Operational state machine: BOOT HOMING OPERATIONAL FAULT E-STOP RECOVERY for your specific platform, including all transition guards, entry/exit actions, and timeout handling.
- Mode switching: active controller selection, mode transition guards, safe mode entry/exit, gravity-compensation-only mode.
- Power-on/off sequences: boot sequencing, drive enable/disable ordering, homing procedure orchestration, controlled shutdown.
- Watchdog and fault management: fault classification (recoverable vs safety-critical), recovery action selection, escalation to E-stop.
- Robot-level health monitoring: aggregating diagnostics, joint state health, drive temperature, joint limit proximity, communication latency.
- gRPC server implementation: mode commands, state queries, fault acknowledgement, streaming joint state, operational state, diagnostics.
- Proto message co-ownership for the robot control API with the Platform Architect and Robot Client SDK Engineer.
- Platform integration test suite: end-to-end CI test coverage in simulation (MuJoCo / Isaac Sim) and on real hardware.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong C++ - modern features (C++17 or later), real-time-safe patterns, allocation discipline.
- gRPC and protobuf: API server implementation, streaming RPCs, backward-compatible proto evolution.
Experience
- State machine design experience for complex robotic systems: clean separation of states, transition guards, fault handling. Familiarity with hierarchical state machine patterns (Boost.SML, sc::statechart, BehaviorTree.CPP, or equivalent).
- Robot abstraction layer experience from prior production work - expressed through ANY ONE of the following equivalent paths (no single framework is a hard gate): ros2_control hardware interfaces (Jazzy or Humble); MoveIt2 hardware interface authoring; OROCOS RTT components for hard-RT control pipelines; Apex.OS deployment on a real platform; vendor SDKs such as Franka Control Interface, Universal Robots URX, KUKA Sunrise.OS, ABB EGM, or comparable; or proprietary in-house robot abstraction layers from prior production work.
- Experience bringing up a real robot platform end-to-end - not only simulation. Hardware integration intuition: timing assumptions, sensor calibration discipline, fault scenario design.
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This is your employer
Neura Robotics GmbH
Neura Robotics GmbH, based in Metzingen, is an innovative company focused on cognitive robotic systems. With products like the robotic arm MAiRA and the humanoid robot 4NE1, the company integrates AI with mechanical elements to create seamless human-machine interaction. Over 1200 employees from more than 45 nations contribute to Neura Robotics' global expansion.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Electronics, Automatization
Robot Platform Engineer
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
