Robotics Interfaces & Platform Integration Engineer

NEURA Robotics; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NEURA Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain interfaces for Mobile Robotics. You will shape how robots communicate with upper-level platforms, ensure API consistency, and define unified APIs across user, developer, and partner needs.

You will also design a dispatcher that maps software configurations to hardware versions. You\'ll work with REST/gRPC, Python/C++ SDKs, ROS 2, and DDS-based interfaces, maintain API versioning and secure access, and support

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in robotics, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ownership mindset for maintaining a production robotics middleware repository, including architecture decisions, issue triage, code reviews, documentation, and releases.
• Ability to maintain API surfaces across protocols including FastDDS, REST/OpenAPI, and Python bindings.
• Strong C++17 and CMake experience, with experience across modular/plugin-based components.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the communication architecture between robots and upper-level software platforms.
• Develop and maintain REST/gRPC APIs, Python/C++ SDKs, OPC UA, MQTT, ROS 2, and ZeroMQ interfaces and related layers.
• Design and maintain a dispatcher to map software configurations to robot models and hardware versions.
• Ensure API versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, authorization, and secure access.
• Support external partners and system integrators with onboarding, debugging, and production deployments.
• Create and maintain API documentation, SDK examples, interface specifications, and configuration guides.

Skills

API design

REST/ gRPC

Python

C++

ROS 2

Distributed systems

DevOps tooling

Technical writing

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering/Robotics

Tools

OPC UA

MQTT

ROS 2

ZeroMQ

Job description

NEURA Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain interfaces for Mobile Robotics. You will shape how robots communicate with upper-level platforms, ensure API consistency, and define unified APIs across user, developer, and partner needs.

You will also design a dispatcher that maps software configurations to hardware versions. You\'ll work with REST/gRPC, Python/C++ SDKs, ROS 2, and DDS-based interfaces, maintain API versioning and secure access, and support