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# Lead software engineer

- **Company:** coera
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €108,000.0 - €118,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Vision, AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), C++ (Programming Language), Static Program Analysis, Code Review, Linux on Embedded Systems, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, MISRA C (C Programming Language), Software Architecture, Real-Time Operating Systems, Sensor Fusion, Software Verification, C++14
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5934133146

## About the Role

* Strong professional experience developing and shipping production software in modern C++.
 * Deep understanding of embedded systems, real-time constraints, and software architecture.
 * Experience working with sensor-based, perception, robotics, or similarly complex systems.
 * Proven ability to take end-to-end technical ownership, from architecture through implementation and delivery.
 * Hands-on technical leadership, including code reviews, technical decision-making, and guiding other engineers. Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment, challenge assumptions constructively, and deliver against demanding timelines.

Preferable skills

 * Experience with functional safety standards, certification processes, or safety-critical software.
 * Familiarity with MISRA, AUTOSAR, static analysis, and verification tools.
 * Experience with QNX, embedded Linux, PREEMPT_RT, or other real-time operating systems.
 * Sensor fusion, computer vision, calibration, and perception systems.
 * Experience building engineering infrastructure, CI, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.Previous experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or early-stage deep-tech companies.

## Description

As Lead Software Engineer at coera Robotics, you will work directly alongside the CTO to shape and build our core safety intelligence platform, enabling humans and robots to work safely together. You will take end-to-end technical ownership, from software architecture and hands-on C++ development to delivering our first certified release. Along the way, you will establish the engineering foundations, tools, and practices that will support our growing team and turn complex safety requirements into reliable, production-ready software.
what you will own

 * Lead the architecture, design, and hands-on development of coera's core safety intelligence platform, from runtime through integration and tooling.
 * Write and review production-quality C++ code, solve complex technical challenges, and establish high engineering standards.
 * Drive software delivery towards our first certifiable release and customer deployment, working against functional safety requirements (SIL 2 / PL d). Build and continuously
 * improve the engineering toolchain, including testing, CI, simulation, and validation practices.
 * Collaborate closely with functional safety specialists, embedded systems engineers, and external partners to translate certification requirements into practical engineering solutions.
 * Own technical priorities, make informed trade-offs, and keep development aligned with critical product and certification milestones.
 * Help shape the growing engineering team through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and participation in hiring., Join coera at a defining stage, where your technical decisions will directly shape the product, its architecture, and the engineering team that grows around it. You'll work closely with the founders, have genuine ownership of critical technology, and see your work progress from development through certification to real-world deployment with robotics partners.
how we work

Small, senior, deliberate. We write more than we meet, challenge ideas openly, and focus on building what matters. We value engineers who take ownership, make sound technical decisions, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity. We care about engineering quality, but we're equally committed to pragmatic solutions and getting things done.