Your mission & challenges
Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Robotic Foundation Model Application Engineers
Act as technical lead and escalation point for NeuraGym users: scope feasibility, choose algorithms, plan data collection
Oversee onboarding of users to the full NeuraGym pipeline: teleoperation, annotation, training, simulation, deployment and validation
Collaborate closely with on-site Robotics Engineers during data capture and experiments to ensure desired behavior and safety standards are met
Step in hands-on when the team hits hard blockers: review training scripts, identify data issues, help reproduce model bugs
Serve as the interface to our Cloud and AI teams, facilitating cross-functional collaboration and alignment
Aggregate lessons learned across all engagements and feed them into both the NeuraGym product roadmap and the Neura core AI roadmap
Define and track team KPIs (skill success rate, time-to-validated-skill, data efficiency)
What we can look forward to
Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related field
5+ years hands-on machine learning experience in robotics — strong in at least two of: vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal foundation models
2+ years of people management or formal technical leadership (tech lead, staff engineer, or team lead with direct reports)
Solid Python skills (C++ a plus); practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
Comfortable working directly with real robot hardware and associated middleware
Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and robotic simulation tools (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, etc.) a plus
Proven ability to deliver complex, multi-month robotics projects with measurable outcomes
Clear communicator who can translate between researchers, engineers, and end-users; good command of English and German (B2–C1)
Skills Required
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years hands-on machine learning experience in robotics (vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal foundation models)
- 2+ years of people management or formal technical leadership
- Solid Python skills
- Practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Comfortable working directly with real robot hardware and associated middleware
- Proven ability to deliver complex, multi-month robotics projects with measurable outcomes
- Clear communication skills; good command of English and German (B2-C1)
- C++ experience
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with robotic simulation tools (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, etc.)
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
