Tech Lead - Robot Safety and Security (f/m/div.)

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

Job summary

Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH is seeking a technical leader to own runtime and assurance architecture for safety-relevant embedded software. You will define claims, operating limits, timing assumptions, and evidence, and coordinate with OEM engineers to determine what the implementation can support.

You will drive formal methods, verification strategy, HIL testing, fault-injection, and review test adequacy. The role demands strong C/C++, real-time, hazard analyses, and traceability from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field
• Strong ownership of safety-relevant embedded software architecture and verification evidence
• Proven experience with real-time systems and safety engineering
• Formal verification or model checking experience
• Traceability from requirements to code and testing
• Ability to inspect and defend verification artifacts

Responsibilities

• Own the runtime and assurance architecture and verification strategy
• Lead reviews: embedded implementation, hazard analyses, verification plans
• Maintain traceability from requirements through code and testing
• Implement critical embedded runtimes and verification components; guide sensing integration and HIL testing
• Review test adequacy and assess evidence in audits
• Reproduce and challenge proof results; defend assurance arguments
• Collaborate with safety and security engineers and OEM teams

Skills

C/C++

Real-time systems

Sensing interfaces

Verification & validation

Formal verification

Model checking

Hardware-in-the-loop

Verification tools

Security integration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering or related field

Tools

ESBMC/Lean

LLM-plus-checker evaluation

Versioned evidence repositories

Job description

As part of our team, you will own the runtime and assurance architecture as well as the verification strategy, defining explicit claims, operating limits, timing assumptions, and evidence. You resolve safety/security interactions while defining monitoring independence, sensing interfaces, and safe-reaction interfaces together with the responsible specialists and OEM engineers, determining which claims the implementation and test evidence can actually support.

You will lead technical reviews of embedded implementation, hazard and threat analyses, verification plans, and field-validation results. You maintain traceability from requirements through code and testing to the technical file.

Additionally, you will implement critical embedded runtimes and verification components while guiding sensing integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and fault injection, including missing or stale inputs, violated limits, and detection and reaction timing. You review test adequacy and assess force/pressure evidence where human-robot interaction requires it.

You will take ownership of the formal-methods strategy for the safety runtime and the safety-security agent-harness tool development plan. You establish specifications, proof obligations, assumptions, trusted components, and independent checks required for the protection functions and when the harness is used in its own development. You also address verification-tool assurance where required by the selected development approach.

Furthermore, you will reproduce and challenge proof/checker results, investigate counterexamples and uncovered failure modes, and close corrective actions. You defend technical evidence in reviews and audits without overstating its coverage.

In our Agentic AI Software Factory, you will use coding agents for implementation, test generation, review preparation, and documentation. You validate their output through reproducible checks and human review, preserve traceability, and apply controlled access to code and data.

Education

• completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering or a related field

Experience and Knowledge

• proven personal architecture and implementation ownership of safety-relevant embedded software or robotic protection functions, including assurance and verification evidence scrutinized through independent review or assessment
• strong proficiency in C/C++, combined with in-depth knowledge of real-time behavior, sensing interfaces, diagnostics, and failure handling
• demonstrated understanding of monitoring independence assumptions and the ability to substantiate detection and reaction timing through measurements from hardware-in-the-loop or physical testing
• deep expertise in safety engineering, with demonstrated ability to integrate product-security requirements into safety-relevant systems
• hands-on experience in formal verification or model checking, including specifications, assumptions, counterexamples, proof limits, and own implementation or analysis
• demonstrated requirements-to-evidence traceability, hazard and threat analysis, and applicable verification-tool assurance
• experience applying relevant industrial safety frameworks to concrete designs, including a clear understanding of their limitations
• proven ability to implement or critically inspect verification artifacts, defend assurance arguments, and resolve findings
• expertise with hardware-in-the-loop rigs, ESBMC/Lean, LLM-plus-checker evaluation, and versioned evidence repositories
• proven technical leadership through implementation and verification; standards awareness, review coordination, audit participation, or tool familiarity alone is insufficient

Personality and Working Practice

you are a rigorous technical leader who makes assumptions explicit, values specialist expertise and communicates residual risks without overstating the evidence

Enthusiasm

for combining formal reasoning, physical validation and disciplined engineering to support trustworthy robotics

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.