Leads robotics automation strategy and hands-on software architecture for manipulators and automated forklifts, spanning controls, autonomy, cloud systems, team leadership, and production deployment.
About this role
This head of engineering leads the software platform for a dual-arm mobile manipulator and future humanoid robots, from motor control to cloud autonomy and from prototype to production.
The role owns architecture, requirements, roadmap, staffing, budget and delivery. Work spans embedded controls, ROS 2, teleoperation, autonomy, motion planning, distributed services, and simulation and field testing.
Candidates need experience leading multidisciplinary robotics teams, or equivalent technical leadership with people-management potential; P&L or budget responsibility; and a record of shipping reliable robotics software beyond proof of concept. They need ROS 2 expertise, deep embedded-control and real-time Linux knowledge, field-bus and distributed-system experience, and C++ and Python proficiency. Familiarity with functional safety, formal verification and cybersecurity is required, alongside excellent English communication.
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