Senior Team Lead Software Architecture
Agile Robots SEVisit Agile Robots SE website
Munich-based provider of AI-powered industrial automation and robotics products.
Munich, Germany
Funding history
About Agile Robots SE
Agile Robots develops Physical AI products, including humanoid robots, robotic arms, dexterous hands, and automation software for industrial applications.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead software architecture for robotics infrastructure, embedded firmware, and distributed systems. You will define interfaces and communication frameworks, contribute C++ and Python code, review code quality, guide engineers, debug system performance, integrate robotic subsystems, and maintain release pipelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical field
- Extensive experience developing high-performance software in modern C++
- Python programming skills for tooling, infrastructure, or automation
- Understanding of Linux systems, real-time environments, and system-level debugging
- Experience leading or mentoring technical software engineering teams
- Experience designing large modular software architectures
- Knowledge of networking, distributed systems, and inter-process communication
- Experience integrating software with robotics, embedded, or real-time control hardware
- Experience designing communication frameworks for robotics or distributed control systems
- Understanding of time synchronization, deterministic communication, and real-time data flows
- Experience debugging kernel-level timing issues and system-level performance bottlenecks
- Experience with real-time constraints, lock-free programming, or high-performance concurrency models
- Experience reviewing complex codebases and maintaining engineering quality standards
- English communication and leadership skills
Responsibilities
- Lead the software architecture function for system infrastructure, software architecture, and embedded firmware
- Define and evolve large-scale robotics software architecture
- Design and maintain communication frameworks across the robotics software stack
- Define interfaces between high-level software, embedded firmware, and hardware
- Architect distributed systems across robotic compute units
- Guide architecture for real-time Linux-based robotics software
- Provide hands-on C++ and Python technical leadership
- Review merge requests and enforce code quality, coding standards, and design principles
- Lead embedded-firmware architecture and integration
- Support perception, motion control, sensor, and distributed-compute subsystem integration
- Drive system-level debugging and performance analysis
- Create and maintain CI/CD release pipelines
- Mentor and technically guide engineers
Benefits
- Corporate benefits covering health, mobility, and learning
- Free drinks and fruit
- Regular company events