Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA

The Ottobock name stands for high-quality and technologically outstanding products and services in medical technology around the world. The goal of regaining mobility for people with disabilities, and protecting what mobility they have, embraces each and every one of the company’s products. The conviction that quality of life is closely linked to a maximum of individual freedom and independence is a key concept that has been a major influence throughout the company’s nearly 100-year history and continues to guide the development of new products in a focused manner.

The medical technology company Ottobock has seen stable growth for years. The company’s international activities are coordinated from its headquarters in Duderstadt. A network of sales and service companies as well as > 400 clinics in more than 60 countries enables us to establish proximity to our customers through a global presence.

Ottobock offers its customers a wide range of products, perfectly harmonised solutions and extensive services in the business segments of prosthetics, NeuroMobility, Patient Care, exoskeletons from 'SUITX by Ottobock' and Business Solutions.

Every day, more than 9,000 employees around the world rise to the challenge of finding individual solutions for the diverse needs of users with a great deal of commitment and inventiveness. This opens up exciting career prospects and international development opportunities. If you want to become part of this inspiring company culture and play an active role in shaping it, Ottobock offers numerous opportunities to make a valuable contribution.

Commitment to the Paralympic Games

Ottobock’s commitment to disability sport has long been a fixed part of the company’s philosophy. The aim is to bring people with disabilities to the centre of society and to show them as great athletes and role models that sport and performance can restore courage to face life. This spirit is embodied by the Paralympic Games, which Ottobock has actively backed and supported since Seoul in 1988. At the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, Ottobock was also represented at several different competition venues with O&P professionals, welders and wheelchair specialists.

Working in the Ottobock team

Ottobock offers a broad selection of career opportunities and entry-level opportunities for everyone who wants to actively participate in the further development of innovative solutions in the field of medical technology. Whether it’s an apprenticeship, internship, work study position or direct career entry – we offer a dynamic working environment characterised by team spirit and a willingness to innovate.

Ottobock is committed to promoting and qualifying talented junior employees. The apprenticeship programme covers various professional fields and gives young people the opportunity to enter professional life in a practical manner. Students also have the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience as working students and actively contribute their knowledge. There are career opportunities for university graduates in various specialist fields – from research and development to sales and marketing to O&P technology.

Ottobock offers an environment that promotes professional and personal development and supports individual career paths. Become a part of the Ottobock team and help improve mobility and quality of life for people around the world!

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A key area of Ottobock's research and development is providing mechatronic solutions for the auto-adaptive control of prosthetic components. The electronic intelligence integrated into the product takes the strain off users so the solutions can adapt to different conditions and everyday situations automatically. Based on this technology, products from our prosthetics range have continually set standards in the provision of fittings for people with disabilities.

Launched in 1997, the C-Leg was the world’s first lower limb prosthesis solution to be controlled entirely by a microprocessor. As the global market leader in exo-prosthetics, Ottobock introduced another milestone in product development in 2011: the Genium Bionic Prosthetic Solution. It simulates a natural, physiological gait almost perfectly.

The Michelangelo prosthetic hand, in turn, represents a quantum leap in upper limb prosthetics. Controlled by muscle signals, it offers four movable fingers and a thumb that can be positioned separately so the user can execute different types of gripping movements quickly, accurately and reliably.

New products launched in 2015 included the Kenevo, which made the benefits offered by microprocessor-controlled lower limb prosthesis solutions available to people with lower mobility grades for the first time, while the Genium X3 and the fourth generation of the C-Leg have established themselves as state-of-the-art technology for more active transfemoral amputees.

In recent years, Ottobock has further built on its market leadership with new innovations. Recent developments include, for example, the Empower prosthetic foot with powered drive, which provides high-energy support for the gait cycle, thereby imitating natural locomotion even better.

Ottobock is also the global market leader in the field of neuroorthopaedics. These devices treat people affected by complete or partial leg paralysis. The C-Brace® knee-ankle-foot orthosis is the first mechatronic orthotic solution in the world that controls the entire gait cycle dynamically and in real time.

The exopulse suit is a fundamental innovation in the field of treatment for neurological disorders and related conditions. The near full-body neuromodulation suit relaxes spastic and tense muscles, activates weak muscles and relieves related pain.

SuitX also develops wearable exoskeletons that help wearers improve and maintain their physical performance. This technology is used in particular in industry and the medical fields to improve the freedom of movement and the well-being of people with physical limitations.

Intensive test procedures are required due to the reliability and safety of the products combined with the amount of strain placed on them. Before a new Ottobock prosthetic foot is brought to market, for example, it is tested in special gait simulators where it completes around three million steps. Complex tests in the gait laboratory also provide information on reaction forces when a prosthetic foot rolls over or the effect of a prosthesis on the subject’s metabolism in order to find solutions that conserve the greatest possible effort.

In addition to the quality of the products, a further focus is on the fitting quality. In the Ottobock Care area, Ottobock now operates more than 400 clinics around the world. Business customers to whom Ottobock Business Service makes its range and know-how available as services also benefit from the knowledge acquired there regarding high-quality fittings, a detailed knowledge of the market and the individual business models developed for countries and regions.