Tech Lead — Robot Communication & Connectivity (human)

Metzingen / Riederich. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will own the technical architecture for the full robot communication stack from real-time drive bus to fleet cloud connectivity. You will provide technical leadership to approximately 20 engineers through code, design reviews, and technical RFCs.

What you will do

Own the architectural direction for the full robot communication stack
Define and maintain the co-review protocol between RT OS scheduling and the EtherCAT master
Own gRPC control API governance including standards, versioning, and streaming patterns
Set DDS and ROS2 middleware standards across all platforms
Own the protocol stack architectural direction for industrial fieldbus integration
Drive quarterly cross-team state machine and API design reviews
Lead quarterly cluster knowledge days
Write design documents to reduce knowledge concentration
Mentor Senior engineers toward Staff level
Drive cluster hiring sourcing

Required qualifications

Hands-on EtherCAT master stack implementation and commissioning on production robot hardware
IEEE 1588/PTP hardware clock synchronisation implementation experience on physical hardware
TSN stack configuration including 802.1Qbv/Qav/AS traffic shaping and deterministic Ethernet scheduling
Deep DDS middleware expertise
gRPC/protobuf API governance experience at the cross-team level
ROS2 middleware stack proficiency
Robot operational state machine design for safety-critical systems
C++17/20 at RT loop constraints
Staff-level leadership
Demonstrated cross-team architectural impact
RFC or design document leadership with cross-team reach
8+ years of hands-on engineering experience spanning embedded real-time systems and robot communication middleware

Nice to have

Industrial fieldbus protocol stack implementation
Fleet robotics platform engineering
Developer SDK design for external developers
Open-source contributions to robotics communication infrastructure

About the company

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