Build and lead the team: Recruit, lead, and grow a team of Robotic AI Application Engineers responsible for deploying NEURA's products in customer projects.
Own end-to-end delivery: Take full ownership of customer deployments — from feasibility assessment and project planning through on-site integration and final acceptance.
Be the senior escalation point: Act as the go-to authority for complex customer projects, ensuring technical, timeline, and quality expectations are met.
Close the feedback loop: Partner with Product Management and R&D to ensure customer and field insights shape future product development.
Establish scalable standards: Define processes, tooling, and quality standards for deployment, configuration, and customer handover across projects and sites.
Steer priorities and resources: Manage project prioritization and resource allocation across multiple concurrent customer engagements.
Represent us externally: Lead the applications team in customer-facing meetings and strategic discussions, building trust and long-term relationships.
Develop your people: Mentor team members and foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and customer focus.
Your background: Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field — or comparable qualifications and practical experience.
Field experience: Several years of hands-on experience deploying robotic or AI-based systems in customer or field environments, ideally including project or delivery ownership.
Leadership experience: Proven track record leading or mentoring a technical team, ideally in a customer-facing or field engineering context.
Project delivery: Demonstrated success managing complex customer projects from planning through successful go-live.
Customer proximity: Confidence working directly with customers at senior level, including willingness to travel.
Communication skills: Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to balance customer needs against engineering and product realities.
Languages: Professional proficiency in English; German language skills are a plus.
Skills Required
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or comparable qualifications and practical experience
- Several years of hands-on experience deploying robotic or AI-based systems in customer or field environments
- Experience leading or mentoring a technical team
- Experience managing complex customer projects from planning through successful go-live
- Confidence working directly with senior-level customers
- Willingness to travel
- Professional proficiency in 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
