Tech Lead Data Wearable - Software Engineering (f/m/div.)

At Bosch, we shape the future with technologies that enrich people’s lives. Join the Industrial Robotics Data team at Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH. With our Data Wearable, we acquire human demonstration data at scale in real industrial environments – capturing how skilled workers handle parts and tools, so that robots can learn from them. As Tech Lead Data Wearable – Software Engineering, you set the technical direction for the wearable’s software, from architecture to engineering practices. You share the technical leadership of the team with the Tech Lead for Robotic Systems and Algorithms and work closely with its Product Owner and the Data Pipeline team.

The Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!

• As part of our team, you will own the wearable software architecture, from firmware and device interfaces through the on-body compute unit and time synchronization to the validated handover to the data platform. You make interface contracts and technical trade-offs explicit, aligning them across teams.
• You will lead the integration of firmware, middleware, and application software into releasable builds. You define the branching and integration strategy, drive design and code reviews, and lead low-level debugging on target, on the bench, and in the field.
• Additionally, you will establish engineering practices that maintain high quality as the team grows, including CI/CD, automated testing up to hardware regression tests, and traceability from requirements to tests. You turn field failures into reproducible regression tests.
• You will drive the software from prototype to series maturity, making it robust, secure, and maintainable. You shape concepts that enable scalability across product variants, devices, and sites.
• Last but not least, you will coach and mentor engineers, raise the team’s technical bar, and align technical decisions with the product owner and partner teams.

• Education: completed Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline, ideally with a focus on embedded systems or robotics
• Experience and Knowledge: 
  • extensive experience in embedded software engineering for real-time sensing systems, including several years as a software architect in series development
  • proven track record of bringing ADAS, robotic, or comparable sensor-based systems into series production
  • deep expertise in C/C++ and Python, including the integration of basic software, middleware, and application layers on embedded Linux and RTOS targets
  • strong understanding of real-time behavior, sensor interfaces, and timing
  • hands-on hardware debugging down to the lowest layers, including drivers, buses, and the hardware itself, using trace debuggers and on-target tools
  • experience establishing CI/CD and automated testing up to hardware regression tests
  • proven experience leading and mentoring engineers across distributed, international teams
  • familiarity with model-based development and docs-as-code, ideally complemented by experience with the NVIDIA Jetson software stack, particularly video pipelines
• Personality and Working Practice: you bring a calm, hands-on leadership style, take ownership beyond your own remit and stay focused even under pressure; you communicate with stakeholders in a clear, structured way, develop the engineers around you and follow failures through to their root cause
• Enthusiasm: regarding software that reaches product maturity and keeps working in the field, and the connection between human motion, data quality and robot capability
• Languages: very good spoken and written English; German is an advantage

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Permanent, open-ended position in the engineering organization of Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH.
We offer flexible working models: from part-time options to mobile working and job sharing. Diversity and inclusion are firmly anchored in our culture.

Need support during your application?
Meltem Rudolph (Human Resources)
+49 174 1744961 

Need further information about the job?
Jan Schneider-Kraus (Functional Department)

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