Robotics Middleware Engineer (human)

The role

You will own the middleware integration layer for the NEURA Core Robot Software department. This involves managing the ROS 2 stack, OROCOS RTT integration, Apex.OS deployment, and DDS infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own the middleware integration layer for the NEURA Core Robot Software department
• Manage the ROS 2 stack including sensor driver nodes, ros2_control, DDS QoS tuning, Nav2, and launch system architecture
• Integrate OROCOS RTT for hard-RT component layers
• Apply Apex.OS for safety-ready deployments
• Integrate, extend, or bridge different variants of FastDDS, Cyclone DDS, and RTI Connext
• Integrate new Zenoh-driven systems
• Use zero-copy transport via Iceoryx2 or other middleware shared memory transport
• Manage cross-middleware interface coherence

Required qualifications

• C++ depth with real-time-safe patterns
• Operational understanding of middleware QoS settings at the wire-protocol level
• Production experience integrating middleware into a real-time robot control loop with deterministic timing requirements
• Production hands-on in AT LEAST ONE of the following: ROS 2 with ros2_control hardware interface authoring and lifecycle node design, OROCOS RTT component authoring and hard-RT deployment, Apex.OS det

Nice to have

• Hands-on across MORE THAN ONE of the four paradigms
• Eclipse Zenoh for fleet-scale distributed messaging or edge scenarios
• Iceoryx or alternative zero-copy IPC integration
• Multi-middleware bridging patterns
• DDS Security plug-ins
• Open-source contributions to major middleware ecosystems

About the company

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