Expert Engineer - Robotics AI Deployment (f/m/div.)

Bosch Group; Renningen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH is seeking a robotics software engineer to bring up a new robot embodiment, from interfaces to calibration and drop-in AI policies. You will work across the control stack, ROS 2, and hardware-in-the-loop tests to ensure robust deployments.

We expect hands-on ownership of initial rollouts, tooling for regression testing, and fast iteration with safety and security collaboration. Strong German and English communication is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on robot integration from bring-up through repeatable operation.
• Strong Python and C++ with ROS 2 experience.
• Ability to integrate AI inference with robot control stacks.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing and calibration.

Responsibilities

• Bring up the target embodiment end to end, including robot interfaces and sensors.
• Integrate world- and video-action models with the control stack and runtimes.
• Engineer execution across inference and control rates with profiling.
• Build repeatable rollout loops, telemetry, and verification tooling.
• Own first deployments and staged rollouts with release gates.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS 2

Kinematics

Calibration

Hardware-in-the-loop

Deployment tooling

Regression testing

AI inference integration

German language

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics or CS

Tools

ROS 2

Python

C++

Hardware-in-the-loop testing

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

At Bosch, we shape the future with technologies that enrich people’s lives. Join Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH to make Robotics AI work on a concrete robot embodiment. You personally own bring-up, control-stack integration, deployment and the first repeatable rollouts, working with the Robotics AI Expert in a small initial team.

The Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!

Job Description

• As part of our team, you will bring up the target embodiment end to end, covering robot interfaces, sensors, calibration, coordinate frames, time synchronization, grippers, as well as control modes. You implement and debug the integration yourself, working across the control stack and embodiment, including ROS 2.
• You will integrate world-/video-action models, learned policies, reasoning agents, as well as executable code or graph policies with the control stack. You translate their outputs into validated robot commands and feedback contracts while working with the corresponding model and code/graph-policy runtimes.
• Additionally, you will engineer execution across inference and control rates, including action buffering, interpolation, latency, jitter, stale observations, watchdogs, limits, as well as recovery mechanisms. You also profile compute, memory, and communication on target hardware and use hardware-in-the-loop tests to validate the integration.
• You will build repeatable physical rollout loops with scene reset, outcome verification, telemetry, as well as failure replay. You support ASPIRE/ENPIRE-style refinement through controlled experiments and explicit release gates, developing robust reset and verification tooling.
• Furthermore, you will take ownership of first deployments and staged rollouts without relying on a staffed deployment team. You version software, models, as well as embodiment configurations while implementing regression tests, monitoring, plus rollback in collaboration with safety and security specialists, supported by dedicated deployment and rollout tooling.
• Using the Agentic AI Software Factory, you will build integration and test tooling while verifying generated work on hardware. You then feed reproducible failures back into architecture and model development.

Qualifications

• Education: completedBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Control Engineering or a related field
• Experience and Knowledge:
  • hands‑on experience with personal ownership of physical robot integration from bring‑up through repeated operation, including independent implementation of the initial embodiment and rollout infrastructure, as well as diagnosis and resolution of failures
  • strong expertise in Python and C++, combined with experience in ROS 2 or equivalent, kinematics, coordinate transforms, calibration, feedback control, hardware debugging, and hardware‑in‑the‑loop testing
  • proven ability to integrate AI inference or agentic execution with robot control stacks, covering model and code/graph‑policy runtimes, asynchronous timing, command validation, recovery, deployment packaging, target‑hardware profiling, versioned configurations, and regression testing
  • practical experience with reset, verification, deployment, and rollout tooling across the control stack and embodiment
  • demonstrated results from your own work, including measured task success, intervention rates, and runtime limits, with the ability to explain the underlying results; coordination‑only experience or offline model evaluation does not meet this requirement
• Personality and Working Practice: you are a self‑sufficient builder who turns non‑working robot setups into repeatable execution and takes ownership of the final integration challenge
• Languages: very good spoken and written German and English

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Permanent, open‑ended position in the engineering organization for 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.

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Jan Schneider‑Kraus(Functional Department)