Robot Platform Engineer (human)

The role

The Robot Platform Engineer will work on robot abstraction layer code to map hardware capabilities to a shared platform API. They will handle middleware wiring, operational state machines, mode switching, and power sequences for robotic platforms.

What you will do

• Implement robot abstraction layer code mapping hardware to platform API
• Wire middleware including ROS 2 launch graphs, OROCOS RTT, or Apex.OS
• Develop operational state machines including transition guards and timeout handling
• Manage mode switching and active controller selection
• Implement power-on and power-off sequences
• Handle watchdog and fault management
• Perform robot-level health monitoring
• Implement gRPC server for commands, queries, and streaming
• Co-own Proto messages for the robot control API
• Develop platform integration test suites in simulation and on real hardware

Required qualifications

• Strong modern C++ (C++17 or later) with real-time-safe patterns
• State machine design experience for complex robotic systems
• gRPC and protobuf experience
• Robot abstraction layer experience from prior production work via ros2_control, MoveIt2, OROCOS RTT, Apex.OS, vendor SDKs, or proprietary layers
• Experience bringing up a real robot platform end-to-end

Nice to have

• Hands-on with more than one robot abstraction layer path
• ROS 2 (Jazzy or Humble) production hands-on
• OROCOS RTT exposure
• Apex.OS familiarity
• Nav2 or equivalent AMR navigation stack, docking cycles, or PROFINET familiarity
• Floating-base state estimation concepts, gait controller integration, or fall detection patterns
• ISO 10218 / ISO/TS 15066 collaborative-robot mode design
• Multi-platform robot integration experience
• Fault tree analysis (FTA) or FMEA
• gRPC-Gateway or REST/gRPC bridging

About the company

The employer is neura-robotics-gmbh.