Description
The Robotics Middleware Engineer will build and integrate a robot abstraction layer that maps hardware capabilities to a common platform API, wire ROS 2, OROCOS RTT, and Apex.OS middleware, and implement operational state machines, mode switching, power sequences, watchdogs, fault management, diagnostics, and gRPC APIs. The role also owns robot-level health monitoring, Protobuf message co-ownership, and end-to-end CI testing in MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, and on real hardware. Candidates should have strong C++, state-machine design, gRPC and Protobuf, and practical experience with robot abstraction layers and real hardware integration.

