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Posted Sep 21, 2026
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Broad estimate: €44,000–€58,000/year
At TACTILIA, we are building the industry-ready robotic hand that closes one of the biggest gaps in Physical AI. Spun out of Schunk, the global market leader in gripping technology, we combine a decade of robotic-hand expertise and real industrial access with the speed and ambition of a deep-tech startup.
This isn't a research project waiting for its first customer. We already have a product, customers are ready to use it, and we are launching now. Your work will directly shape the electronics, actuators, and embedded systems that make that possible.
You will join at the moment when the hard engineering questions become real product decisions: how do we make a highly capable robotic hand reliable, manufacturable, serviceable, and simple enough to deploy on a real shop floor?
As a Senior Sensor Engineer (Tactile & Proprioception) at TACTILIA Robotics, you will build the neural architecture of physical touch and spatial awareness that gives our robotic hands human-like dexterity.
You will own the complete sensing architecture—from evaluating tactile technologies and proprioceptive layouts to designing readout electronics, calibration matrix algorithms, and real-time sensor pipelines.
Fitting high-density sensing skins, force feedback, and position tracking into a tight hand envelope means balancing signal integrity, low latency, and mechanical durability under high cyclic wear. You will work closely with Mechanics, Electronics, and Software to turn raw physical contact into clean, reliable data for real-time robotic control.
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.
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Estimate: about €86,000/year
CesiumAstroMunich
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CesiumAstroMunich
Glassdoor 2.9 (65)
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation
Estimate: about €87,000/year
Broad estimate: €44,000–€58,000/year
