Firmware Engineer — Dexterous Hand Systems (human)

The role

You will build and own the embedded firmware stack for a humanoid hand. This includes motor control loops, RTOS HAL layers, Qualcomm IQ-series bring-up, and the communication stack.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain field-oriented control (FOC) firmware for BLDC actuators
• Architect and own the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) on RTOS and Linux Kernel targets
• Perform full Qualcomm IQ-series SOM bring-up
• Define and implement the full communication stack including FastDDS, Micro-XRCE-DDS, TSN, CAN, SPI, and I2C
• Implement multi-level watchdog and safety monitoring architecture targeting ASIL-B compliance
• Collaborate with the Electronics team on hardware bring-up and motor driver integration
• Collaborate with the Control engineer to ensure firmware meets timing and observability requirements

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of embedded firmware development in real-time systems
• RTOS experience is mandatory
• Deep FOC implementation experience tuning and debugging field-oriented control on real BLDC actuators
• Linux Kernel driver development including device tree authoring, custom driver implementation, and low-level peripheral bring-up
• Hands-on DDS middleware experience in embedded or edge contexts
• Practical experience implementing deterministic communication stacks such as TSN, CAN bus protocol stack, or equivalent

Nice to have

• Zephyr RTOS experience
• ASIL-B or SIL 2 level experience
• Qualcomm IQ platform (or similar) BSP and bring-up experience
• Infineon TLE9879 or similar integrated motor driver bring-up and configuration
• Experience developing firmware for tendon-driven or BLDC-actuated robotic hand or finger mechanisms
• Contributions to open-source RTOS or embedded middleware projects (Zephyr, NuttX, or similar)

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh develops a Humanoid Hand that packs dozens of actuated finger and palm drive stages.