Senior Control Software Engineer

Your Role
Freshly cooked food. Everywhere. All the time.
With our robots, we're transforming the way the world cooks and enjoys food. Through technology that supports the foodservice industry, reduces food waste, and elevates culinary quality to a new, scalable level. Accessible to everyone. Everywhere. Anytime. We give our all to make this happen – across every level, team and function.

As a Control Software Engineer, you develop the intelligence of our robots across all levels – from planning and orchestration to the logic of individual components and embedded code. You take ownership of the entire development cycle and tackle bugs holistically to sustainably improve reliability, performance, and code quality.

These are the tasks you will be responsible for:

• End-to-end ownership of features and issue resolution: You'll take full responsibility for identifying, reproducing, diagnosing, fixing, testing, and deploying changes across a broad control software codebase. Along the way, you'll make independent design decisions and contribute directly to the evolution of our systems.
• Boosting reliability and performance: You'll strengthen core components—including planning and orchestration logic, state machines, and embedded sensor/actuator control—to reduce field bugs, regressions, and mean time to recovery (MTTR), while increasing throughput and overall system stability.
• Level 3 production support: You'll act as the escalation point for unexpected issues in the field. Using telemetry data, you'll triage incidents, contain impact, implement long-term fixes, and ensure that learnings from each incident are fed back into the codebase, test coverage, and operational runbooks.

Your profile
You're passionate about innovative technologies, excited about the role, and ready to help us revolutionize the worlds of tech and culinary even further? Let's get cooking

These are the qualities helping you thrive in this role:

• Degree in Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of professional experience in relevant domains, ideally at the intersection of software and hardware
• Strong software development skills with a clear understanding of hardware-related contexts
• Proven experience in at least one of the following areas: academic research, startup environments, or independently developed technical projects
• Exceptional code comprehension skills – you can read and debug others' code faster than they can
• High sense of ownership – you take full responsibility for your code, including features, bugs, and long-term maintainability
• Fluent in English – German or other languages are a plus

This is how you act & think:

• Ownership mindset: You take full responsibility for complex challenges, driving solutions end-to-end and ensuring they hold up in production
• Systems thinking: You reason across multiple layers – from planning and state machines to embedded I/O – and anticipate side effects
• Exceptional debugging skills: You work methodically and hypothesis-driven, excelling at reproducing issues, instrumenting systems, and identifying root causes
• Pragmatic engineering approach: You strike a balance between ideal design, speed, and risk, and know when to refactor versus apply a quick fix
• Clear communicator: You provide concise, precise updates and write clean tickets, pull requests, and incident reports
• Learning agility: You quickly absorb new domains, tools, and codebases, actively seek feedback, and iterate effectively
• Code quality advocate: You promote maintainable patterns, well-designed interfaces, and thorough documentation

What We Offer You
At goodBytz, you are more than just part of a team – you become an important co-creator.
We are looking for colleagues who not only think along but also have the courage to express critical thoughts. For us, respect, trust, and open exchange are the basis for success and satisfaction.

You can expect:
A unique working environment:
Immerse yourself in a world between cutting-edge technology and innovative gastronomy – visionaries, tinkerers, and connoisseurs work hand in hand with us.

Trust and responsibility:
With us, you take on personal responsibility and have the freedom to make operational decisions. We rely on your expertise and ideas

Short paths, big impact:
You'll find flat hierarchies and a team that collaborates as equals across all areas.

That means your ideas are heard quickly – and implemented even faster.

Flexibility for your life:
Work when it suits you best – with flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely (as far as your position allows).

Attractive additional benefits:
You can choose between:

• subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership (M-package)
• subsidy for the Deutschlandticket (hvv Jobticket Premium)
• Edenred City Card

Sustainable commuting – with your dream bike:
We support you with a bike leasing offer that's good for you and the planet.

From the end of your probation period, you're ready to ride – with our support.

A strong start with strong gear:
Onboarding for us means more than just a warm welcome – you'll receive top-tier equipment from the brand of your choice and an introduction that brings you right into our world

A dynamic startup environment:
As part of a fast-growing company with great market and expansion potential, you can make a difference from the start and grow with us.

Team events that inspire:
Regular events and activities strengthen our togetherness – from cooking evenings to joint workouts.

Culinary highlights:
Enjoy fresh, healthy meals – prepared by our top-notch Culinary Arts Team or straight from our robots. Plus, there's fresh fruit and a well-stocked candy bar waiting for you.

Come as you are – and just say "you":
Whether hoodie or button-up – what matters is that you're yourself. And since we work on equal footing, everyone at goodBytz is on a first-name basis. It's how we build trust and keep things real.

Your new workplace is more than just a job – it is a chance to be part of something big. Become part of goodBytz and let's shape the future together
About Us
Our mission
GoodBytz develops intelligent cooking robots. These enable professional chefs to make their cooking qualitatively scalable and reproducible. At the same time, we provide culinary innovators from around the world with a comprehensive solution based on robots, AI and Big Data tools, enabling our society to produce and prepare food in a more sustainable way. At the same time, high quality, sustainable and delicious food will be made available to the masses. Our robotic kitchens are capable of performing all processes of cooking, starting from portioning ingredients to washing pots. The integrated sensor technology enables precise monitoring and control of the cooking processes, continuously achieving high quality.

Our values
At GoodBytz we want all our employees to be able to bring their passion, creativity and individuality to their work. With a high degree of autonomy and transparency in all areas of work, everyone is empowered to make quick and independent decisions. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we strongly believe that diversity fosters innovation. Join us in our mission to democratize healthy, sustainable and delicious food.