Tech Lead — Robot Systems & Integration (Mensch)

The role

As a Staff Engineer in Robot Systems & Integration, you will be responsible for the technical architecture of the robot's foundation. You will provide technical leadership, write code, lead design reviews, and manage integration across OS scheduling, middleware, hardware drivers, and motion planning pipelines.

What you will do

• Responsible for the RT-scheduling policy including priority assignment and memory-locking requirements.
• Manage the review process at the interface between RT-OS-scheduling and the EtherCAT-Master.
• Ensure engineers have clear guidelines for RT-OS architecture and validate timing budgets.
• Provide architectural direction for the motion-planning-pipeline.
• Enforce the common skill-primitive-library through code reviews.
• Define the boundary between server and protocol in industrial integration.
• Responsible for the end-effector-server architecture including gripper lifecycle management.
• Lead quarterly Knowledge Days for peer-to-peer exchange.
• Write design documents to reduce knowledge silos.
• Mentor senior engineers towards staff level and drive sourcing for new hires.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of practical engineering experience with a clear focus on Robot Systems Integration.
• Staff-Level-Leadership: demonstrable architectural influence across multiple teams.
• Staff-Level-Leadership: leadership in RFCs or design documents with cross-team reach.
• Staff-Level-Leadership: mentoring experience accelerating at least one person towards Senior or Staff level.
• Broad system integration experience with end-to-end understanding of the stack.
• Proven experience debugging errors across layer boundaries at the OS-middleware-hardware interface.
• C++17/20-Systems-Programming: Lock-free-Patterns, RAII, RT-safe memory management.
• Deep experience in at least two of the following: Embedded-Linux-Systemintegration on RT-level, ROS2 hardware-interface architecture, Motion-Planning-Pipeline for productive manipulation, Industrial d

Nice to have

• RT-OS-Kernel experience combined with deep ROS2 or other middleware expertise.
• Experience bringing a motion-planning-pipeline from development to production on a manipulator or mobile manipulator.
• Background in industrial functional safety at the software architecture level.
• Experience with the implementation of real-time execution engines.
• Open-Source-Contributions in the area of Robot Systems Infrastructure (ros2_control, MoveIt2, Nav2, Xenomai or comparable).

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh develops robots based on a foundation of system integration work including real-time operating systems, hardware-interface layers, motion-planning pipelines, and industrial device servers.