Robotics Middleware Engineer (C++)

Location: On-site in Metzingen/Riederich, Bielefeld, or Munich, Germany

Company

hirify.global develops robot software and cognitive robotics systems.

What you will do

• Own the middleware integration layer for the NEURA Core Robot Software department across real-time control, fleet messaging, and production robotics.
• Lead the ROS 2 layer across robot platforms, including sensor drivers, ros2_control composition, DDS QoS, Nav2, launch architecture, and diagnostics.
• Develop and maintain hard-real-time OROCOS RTT components and hardware-abstraction interfaces for dynamics and whole-body control pipelines.
• Integrate Apex.OS/Apex.Middleware for deterministic, safety-ready ROS 2 deployments, including ISO 26262 ASIL-D requirements.
• Integrate, extend, and bridge FastDDS, Cyclone DDS, RTI Connext, Eclipse Zenoh, and zero-copy IPC transports.
• Keep robot state, command, sensor-stream, port, and topic contracts coherent across middleware surfaces.

Requirements

• Deep C++ knowledge and experience with real-time-safe patterns such as lock-free queues, zero-copy semantics, allocation discipline, and real-time-safe logging.
• Production experience integrating middleware into real-time robot control loops with deterministic timing requirements.
• Hands-on production experience with at least one core middleware paradigm: ROS 2, OROCOS RTT, Apex.OS/Apex.Middleware, or direct DDS implementation and tuning.
• Ability to reason about DDS reliability, durability, history depth, fragmentation, discovery, and failure modes at the wire-protocol level.
• Ability to work on-site in Metzingen/Riederich, Bielefeld, or Munich, Germany.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with more than one of the four core middleware paradigms.
• Eclipse Zenoh for fleet-scale distributed messaging or edge scenarios.
• Iceoryx or other zero-copy IPC integrations, and multi-middleware bridging patterns.
• DDS Security plug-ins for authentication, access control, and cryptographic transformation.
• Open-source contributions to ROS 2, OROCOS Toolchain, Apex.OS, FastDDS, Cyclone DDS, or RTI Connext ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on production and cognitive robotics systems.
• Address functional-safety requirements for industrial and automotive-style deployments.
• Work across multiple middleware ecosystems and robot platforms.