RTOS Engineer

why this role matters

coera's guardrails run where robots run. That means a real-time operating system we can certify. QNX OS for Safety and QNX Hypervisor for Safety are the industry anchors for safety-certified real-time on autonomous vehicles, robotic agents, and medical devices. You will own coera's runtime story end-to-end, from kernel-level integration to partitioned workloads on a single SoC, through to certified release.

• Own coera's runtime on RTOS for Safety, end-to-end.
• Architect mixed-criticality partitioning using i.e. QNX Hypervisor for Safety, so workloads run in parallel on one SoC without compromising the safety guarantee.
• Bring up and maintain board support packages on coera's target SoCs.
• Design the real-time-critical paths: scheduling, IPC, deterministic memory management, latency budgets.

• Expert C and modern C++ (C++14+) with MISRA C / MISRA C++ / AUTOSAR C++14 discipline.
• Deep working knowledge of QNX OS for Safety and QNX Hypervisor for Safety: microkernel message-passing, resource managers, adaptive partitioning, POSIX conformance.
• BSP or device-driver experience on at least one automotive or robotics-grade SoC family such as ARMv8-A / ARMv9-A fluency at register, MMU, and IPC level.
• Functional safety literacy anchored in IEC 61508 and EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230.
• V-model or Automotive SPICE or IEC 61508 Part 3 process fluency.

• Prior product taken through SIL2 or ASIL-B or higher to assessor sign-off, with your name on the safety case.
• Hypervisor partitioning and mixed-criticality shipping (QNX Hypervisor for Safety, Green Hills INTEGRITY Multivisor, Lynx LYNXOS-178, PikeOS).
• Safety analysis fluency: FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA.
• QNX-adjacent open-source contributions, or a track record at Black Berry QNX.
• IEC 62443 (industrial cybersecurity) and ISO/SAE 21434 (automotive cyber) literacy. Security as a first-class concern on the runtime.

• Experience porting a codebase from general-purpose Linux to an RTOS.
• German or Farsi in addition to English.

A core-team role with real ownership over what we build and how. Direct line to deployments with leading robotics partners from day one. Post-thesis, pre-scale: the window where the work you do actually compounds.
All coera employees participate in the company's long-term success through our employee participation program (ESOP). The specific terms of your participation are agreed individually as part of your compensation package.

Small, senior, deliberate. We write more than we meet. We ship the core of the product before we ship the edges. We care about craft in code, policy design, and how we engage with customers. The bar is high, and the stakes are high: the safety layer of the robotics revolution is being built now, and we intend to be the one that defines it.

coera is the universal safety intelligence layer for human-robot coexistence, built to redefine what safety means in the age of physical AI. Robotics is advancing faster than the safety systems meant to support it. coera closes that gap with multimodal sensing and deterministic guardrails: retrofittable, embeddable, controller-agnostic. Safety is not a checkpoint or a constraint. It is the capability that lets intelligent machines operate freely wherever people do.

Salary: EUR 63000 - 77000 per year