Senior Sensor Engineer (f/m/d)

About TACTILIA At TACTILIA, we are building the industry-ready robotic hand that closes one of the biggest gaps in Physical AI. Spun out of Schunk, the global market leader in gripping technology, we combine a decade of robotic-hand expertise and real industrial access with the speed and ambition of a deep-tech startup.

This isn't a research project waiting for its first customer. We already have a product, customers are ready to use it, and we are launching now. Your work will directly shape the electronics, actuators, and embedded systems that make that possible.

You will join at the moment when the hard engineering questions become real product decisions: how do we make a highly capable robotic hand reliable, manufacturable, serviceable, and simple enough to deploy on a real shop floor?

The Role As a Senior Sensor Engineer (Tactile & Proprioception) at TACTILIA Robotics, you will build the neural architecture of physical touch and spatial awareness that gives our robotic hands human-like dexterity.

You will own the complete sensing architecture—from evaluating tactile technologies and proprioceptive layouts to designing readout electronics, calibration matrix algorithms, and real-time sensor pipelines.

Fitting high-density sensing skins, force feedback, and position tracking into a tight hand envelope means balancing signal integrity, low latency, and mechanical durability under high cyclic wear.

You will work closely with Mechanics, Electronics, and Software to turn raw physical contact into clean, reliable data for real-time robotic control. What you will do: Own the sensing architecture.

Lead the evaluation, selection, and overall design of tactile and proprioceptive sensing systems across fingers, palm, and joints—built for modularity across product variants, not a one-off prototype. Develop tactile array hardware.

Design and prototype high-resolution tactile sensors (optical, capacitive, piezoresistive, or magnetic) tailored for space-constrained, contact-ri