(Senior) Electronics Engineer, Hardware & Firmware (f/m/d)

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Own the hardware architecture. Design schematics and high-density, multilayer PCB layouts (mixed-signal, tight thermal/EMC constraints) built for modularity across product variants—not a one-off prototype.
• Build control hardware and firmware that can't miss a beat. Search, evaluate, test, and integrate actuator hardware alongside motor drivers for compact servo drives; write deterministic real-time firmware (C/C++) for control loops, timing-critical execution, limit monitoring, and fault handling.
• Choose the right sensor and make the data mean something. Search, evaluate, test, and integrate sensor hardware for tactile sensing and proprioception (position and force); design low-noise readout electronics, signal conditioning, filtering, and calibration pipelines to deliver clean, low-latency telemetry to the software stack.
• Ship rock-solid bootloaders and drivers. Build field-updatable bootloaders, low-level drivers, and secure, fail-safe update strategies across product generations—documented and reliable, not tribal knowledge.
• Build interfaces customers actually want to integrate. Implement and maintain fieldbus and hardware communication layers (EtherCAT, CANopen, Ethernet) aligned cleanly with higher-level software and robot controllers.
• Debug on real hardware. Own the lab bring-up process from first power-on to full validation. Trace issues across the hardware, firmware, and mechanical boundaries with scopes, logic analyzers, and thermal imaging.
• Build security into the product from day one. Support Cyber Resilience Act compliance by integrating secure boot, signed firmware updates, and hardware-level trust mechanisms early in the design cycle.
• Build for series production, not just the lab. Design for manufacturing and test (DFM/DFT), select resilient supply-chain components with second sources, run EMC pre-compliance, and drive hardware through production ramp-up.
• Work across the whole team. Tight loop with Mechanics, Software, and System Applications—translating mechanical and control requirements into robust, deployable electronics.

WHAT YOU BRING:

• A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field.
• 5–10 years of experience developing embedded hardware and firmware for mechatronic products, including at least one product taken into series production.
• Proven expertise in schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout (Altium, KiCad, or similar), specifically for space-constrained, mixed-signal designs.
• Strong C/C++ skills on bare-metal or RTOS (ARM Cortex-M or similar) with a deep understanding of timing, concurrency, memory, and register-level hardware control.
• Hands-on experience with BLDC/DC motor driver design, current/velocity/position control loops, and low-level sensor interfacing.
• A strong hardware mindset: you enjoy lab bring-up, signal-integrity debugging, and getting to the bottom of transient issues with a scope or logic analyzer.
• Fluent English; German is a plus, not a requirement.

BONUS:

• Miniature electronics, high-density PCB packaging, or tight thermal constraints
• Tactile, force/torque, or contact-rich sensor arrays
• Real-time fieldbuses (EtherCAT, CANopen)
• Product security: secure boot, signed firmware, CRA, IEC 62443
• Functional safety standards (Machinery Regulation, ISO/TS 15066)

The next chapter of robotics won't be built in a lab. It will be built by people who care about what happens when technology meets the real world.

At TACTILIA, you'll work on one of the hardest open problems in robotics: giving machines the dexterity, reliability, and robustness they need to interact with the physical world at industrial scale.

The technology is taking shape. The team is being built. And the standards for robotic hands and their skills are still wide open.

That means your decisions will have a lasting impact — not just on a product, but on what comes next for Physical AI.

Build the hand. Define the standard. Shape what comes next.

If you're excited by the challenge of building robotic hands that work reliably in the real world, we'd love to hear from you.

Wir zeigen einen Auszug und einen Link je Anzeige, und den vollen Text, wenn die Quelle es erlaubt. Genannte Marken und Logos gehören ihren Inhabern.

Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Tabelle; dl-de/by-2-0; eigene Berechnung

Veröffentlicht am 01. Nov. 2026

Veröffentlicht am 01. Nov. 2026