Software Engineer (m/f/d) Industrial Robot Control - #2722284

The Robotics & Mechatronics Teams at Agile Robots are looking for a Software Engineer (m/f/d) Industrial Robot Control, who will develop the C++ control software that drives the robot arm, from single-motor to multi-body control. Control code that works in simulation still has to survive real sensor noise and hardware wear before it runs safely on a physical arm.

Responsibilities

• Control Software: Design and develop C++ software for the robot's control stack, covering kinematics, trajectory generation, and compliance control from single-motor to full multi-body coordination.
• Hardware Tuning: Identify system parameters and tune controller gains against physical hardware, turning a controller that works in simulation into one that behaves correctly on the real arm.
• Real-Time Performance: Profile control software and guarantee its real-time compliance, keeping execution within the timing margins the arm's safety and stability depend on.
• Hardware Validation: Write automated software tests, define hardware testing procedures, and work hands-on with the robot to confirm control software behaves correctly outside simulation.
• System Architecture: Contribute to the wider robot system architecture, aligning control software decisions with mechanical and electrical constraints.
• Code Quality: Review colleagues' code and give architectural feedback that keeps the control codebase maintainable as it grows.
• Technology Evaluation: Investigate and evaluate emerging robotic control methods and algorithms, and assess where they could strengthen the existing control stack.

Essential Skills

• Background: Degree in computer science, control engineering, mechatronics, or a related engineering field, plus five or more years of professional C++ development — or seven or more years of equivalent hands-on experience without the degree.
• Kinematics & Dynamics: Solid understanding of robot kinematics and dynamics, sufficient to reason about forward and inverse mappings and trajectory generation for a multi-body arm.
• Control Engineering: Background in control engineering, with hands-on experience in parameter identification and controller tuning against real hardware rather than simulation alone.
• Modern C++: Proficiency in modern C++, including thread-safe and exception-safe code, and comfort working across the standard build, test, and debugging toolchain on Linux.
• Hardware Troubleshooting: Good troubleshooting and debugging skills applied directly to physical robotic hardware, not only to software running in isolation.

Beneficial Skills

• Python: Working programming skills in Python or a similar scripting language, used alongside C++ for tooling and analysis.
• CI/CD Ownership: Experience maintaining or extending CI/CD pipelines for a C++ codebase.
• Research Background: Research-level experience in robotics or controls, for example through a PhD or an equivalent independent research project.