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At NEURA Robotics, cognitive robots don't just execute commands. They perceive, reason, plan over long horizons, and act autonomously in the physical world. We're looking for an engineer who builds the systems that make that possible: the agent harnesses, planning loops, and orchestration layers that turn a language model into a reliable embodied agent.
Agent architecture & harness design: Design and build the core agent harness for our humanoid platform: the control loop, tool/skill interfaces, state and memory management, retries, and guardrails that keep long-running autonomous behavior reliable.
Long-horizon planning & orchestration: Build systems that decompose high-level human intent into multi-step plans, orchestrate skills and sub-agents, track execution state, recover from errors, and escalate to human oversight when risk is high.
Conversational AI for embodied interaction: Design the real-time voice stack: STT → LLM → TTS pipeline with robust turn-taking, barge-in handling, and addressee detection so the robot knows when it's being spoken to and responds naturally under real-world latency constraints.
Backend & platform engineering: Build the production backend behind the agent: well-designed APIs and interfaces, distributed services connecting sub-agents to the main conversational agent, and edge-to-cloud deployment across the NEURA ecosystem.
Evaluation & industrialization: Stand up evaluation harnesses and observability that measure whether agents actually complete tasks correctly, and drive promising prototypes through to industrialized, deployed systems.
Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with hardware/software teams and external partners to take agentic capabilities from concept to reliable end-to-end product.
A strong Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent depth shown through shipped work.
Demonstrated experience building production agent systems with measurable impact: agents that plan, use tools, maintain state, and run reliably over long horizons, rather than single-turn prompt work.
Deep, hands-on experience with agent frameworks and orchestration such as LangGraph, AgentCore, MCP, or custom orchestrators, and a clear sense of when to use an agent versus a deterministic workflow.
Professional backend engineering experience: production services, API and interface design, distributed and microservice architectures, clean code, testing, and DevOps discipline.
Cloud and edge-to-cloud experience, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and deploying and serving models and services in production.
Strong grounding in LLMs, VLMs, and NLP.
Excellent Python.
Excellent English. German is a plus.
Skills Required
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent shipped work
- Demonstrated experience building production agent systems that plan, use tools, maintain state, and run long-horizon
- Deep hands-on experience with agent frameworks and orchestrators (e.g., LangGraph, AgentCore, MCP, or custom)
- Professional backend engineering experience: production services, API/interface design, distributed microservices, testing, DevOps
- Cloud and edge-to-cloud experience including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and deploying/serving models in production
- Strong grounding in large language models, vision-language models, and NLP
- Excellent Python
- Experience with conversational/real-time voice stacks (STT -> LLM -> TTS), turn-taking, barge-in, and addressee detection
- Excellent English
- German language skills
What We Do
NEURA Robotics is a German high-tech company founded in 2019 in Metzingen near Stuttgart with the vision to revolutionize the world of robotics. More than 180 team members from over 30 countries are working on advanced technologies in the fields of environmental perception, drive and control technology, material science, mechanical design, and artificial intelligence. We are expanding the cognitive capabilities of robots and make breakthrough advances in a variety of areas to bring robots and humans closer together, making many areas of work more attractive, creative, and social again. That's why everything we do runs under the guiding principle "we serve humanity". In a very short period of time, NEURA Robotics has developed robots and technologies that are characterized above all by their outstanding performance as well as safe and human-centred way of working. In this way, a wide variety of application fields can be covered, from intelligent production to medical technology. All major robot components are developed and designed in-house. Imprint: https://www.neura-robotics.com/legal Privacy: https://www.neura-robotics.com/privacy
