Tech Lead — Robot Systems & Integration (human)

The role

You will own the technical architecture of the robot systems integration foundation. This individual contributor role involves setting architectural direction, writing code, and resolving cross-layer integration conflicts across OS scheduling, middleware, hardware drivers, and motion planning.

What you will do

• Own the RT scheduling policy including priority assignment, memory locking, and interrupt latency contracts
• Own the co-review protocol between RT OS scheduling and the EtherCAT master
• Provide RT OS architecture guidance to unified compute platform engineers
• Own the motion planning pipeline architectural direction and API design
• Enforce the shared skill primitive library through code review
• Define the server/protocol boundary in industrial integration
• Own the end-effector server architecture
• Lead quarterly cluster knowledge days
• Write design documents to reduce knowledge concentration
• Mentor Senior engineers and drive cluster hiring sourcing

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with a strong robot systems integration focus
• Staff-level leadership
• Demonstrated cross-team architectural impact
• RFC or design document leadership with cross-team reach
• Mentoring track record
• Robot systems integration depth in at least two of the following: Embedded Linux systems integration at the RT level, ROS2 hardware interface architecture, Motion planning pipeline for production mani
• Sufficient understanding across the full stack to review MRs and arbitrate design decisions
• Demonstrated experience debugging cross-layer failures at the OS–middleware–hardware boundary
• C++17/20 systems programming

Nice to have

• RT OS kernel-level experience combined with ROS2 (or other middleware) depth
• Experience shipping a motion planning pipeline from development through to production on a manipulator or mobile manipulator
• Industrial functional safety background at the software architecture level
• Real-time execution engine implementation experience
• Open-source contributions to robot systems infrastructure: ros2_control, MoveIt2, Nav2, Xenomai, or equivalent

About the company

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