Firmware Engineer — Dexterous Hand Systems (Mensch)

Munich. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will develop and be responsible for the embedded firmware stack for a humanoid hand. This includes motor control loops, RTOS HAL layers, Qualcomm IQ Series bring-up, and communication stacks.

What you will do

Develop and maintain Field-Oriented-Control (FOC) firmware for BLDC actuators.
Design and manage the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) on RTOS and Linux-Kernel targets.
Perform full bring-up of Qualcomm-IQ-Series SoMs.
Define and implement the complete communication stack including FastDDS, Micro-XRCE-DDS, TSN, CAN, SPI, and I2C.
Implement a multi-stage watchdog and safety monitoring architecture for ASIL-B compliance.
Work with the electronics team on hardware bring-up and motor driver integration.
Coordinate with the control engineer to meet timing and observability requirements.

Required qualifications

5+ years of experience in embedded firmware development for real-time systems.
RTOS experience is mandatory.
Deep experience with FOC implementations including tuning and debugging on real BLDC actuators.
Linux kernel driver development including Device-Tree creation and low-level bring-up of peripherals.
Hands-on experience with DDS middleware in embedded or edge environments.
Practical experience with deterministic communication stacks like TSN or CAN-Bus protocol stacks.

Nice to have

Zephyr-RTOS
ASIL-B or SIL-2 experience
Experience with Qualcomm-IQ platforms (BSP development and bring-up)
Infineon TLE9879 or comparable integrated motor driver experience
Experience in firmware development for cable-driven or BLDC-actuated robotic hands or finger mechanisms
Open-Source contributions to RTOS or embedded middleware projects

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh develops a humanoid hand that combines dozens of actuated finger and palm drive stages.