(Senior) Electronics Engineer, Hardware & Firmware (f/m/d)

About TACTILIA

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?

The Role

As an Electronics Engineer (Embedded Hardware & Firmware) at TACTILIA Robotics, you will help design and build the physical and low-level intelligence that brings our robotic hands to life.

You will own the complete embedded hardware and firmware stack—from schematics and high-density multilayer layouts to the real-time C/C++ firmware running directly on the metal.

Fitting multiple drives, high-density tactile arrays, and power electronics into a hand-sized volume means every decision is a tight balance of space, thermals, signal integrity, and manufacturability. You will work closely with the CTO and cross-functional team, moving smoothly between architecture, circuit design, and the lab to solve complex problems where physics meets code.

What you will do:

• Own the hardware architecture. Design schematics and high-density, multilayer PCB layouts (mixed-signal, tight thermal/EMC constraints) built for modularity across product variants—not a one-off prototype.

• Build control hardware and firmware that can't miss a beat. Search, evaluate, test, and integrate actuator hardware alongside motor drivers for compact servo drives; write deterministic real-time firmware (C/C++) for control loops, timing-critical execution, limit monitoring, and fault handling.

• Choose the right sensor and make the data mean something. Search, evaluate, test, and integrate sensor hardware for tactile sensing and proprioception (position and force); design low-noise readout electronics, signal conditioning, filtering, and calibration pipelines to deliver clean, low-latency telemetry to the software stack.

• Ship rock-solid bootloaders and drivers. Build field-updatable bootloaders, low-level drivers, and secure, fail-safe update strategies across product generations—documented and reliable, not tribal knowledge.

• Build interfaces customers actually want to integrate. Implement and maintain fieldbus and hardware communication layers (EtherCAT, CANopen, Ethernet) aligned cleanly with higher-level software and robot controllers.