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Neura Robotics

Cognitive robots with perception, manipulation, collaboration

Physical AI Engineer

Applied Machine Learning +1Posted on Nov 3
Full-timeAachen, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or doctorate in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field.
  • Practical machine-learning experience in robotics, with strength in at least one of vision-based manipulation, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or multimodal models.
  • Demonstrated experience fine-tuning large pretrained models for robotics or another domain, including parameter-efficient fine-tuning/LoRA, full fine-tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation.
  • Very good Python skills; C++ is advantageous. Practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow is required.
  • Demonstrated experience in customer-facing technical roles, such as solution engineering, field AI engineering, or technical consulting, including handling multiple customers in parallel.
  • Sound understanding of robot hardware, including actuators and joint modules, torque sensing and encoders, end effectors, sensor integration, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces such as EtherCAT, and functional safety concepts.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and translate between researchers, engineers, and end users; good English and German proficiency at B2–C1 level.
  • Willingness to travel frequently to customers and NeuraGym sites, approximately 40–60%.

Responsibilities

  • Drive development of cognitive robotics applications using Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform, and own the results on customer robots.
  • Implement the NeuraGym pipeline for real-world robotics applications, from teleoperation and data annotation through training and simulation to deployment and validation.
  • Deploy policies from checkpoints into real-time closed-loop control, using distillation, quantization, action chunking, latency budgeting, and on-device or edge inference to meet customer timing and reliability requirements.
  • Serve as the central technical contact for customers adopting Physical AI, understand their applications, and support them from kickoff through handover.
  • Work hands-on with MAiRA, MiPA, LARA, and humanoid platforms alongside interdisciplinary engineering teams on end effectors and tool changers, sensor selection and installation, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces, and robot-cell mechanics.
  • Enable customer champions to train their colleagues so customers can operate independently.
  • Onboard NeuraGym users, review training pipelines and scripts, identify data-quality issues, analyze model behavior, and resolve persistent blockers on site.
  • Coordinate between cloud and AI teams to support collaboration, technical alignment, and cross-functional problem solving.
  • Build evaluation harnesses, success-rate benchmarks, and regression tests to assess policy readiness for handover and reveal failure modes before customers encounter them.
  • Translate field experience and customer insights into concrete feedback for the NeuraGym product roadmap and NEURA Core AI roadmap.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of the open VLA and policy-learning ecosystem, such as π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, LeRobot, and Diffusion Policies.
  • C++ experience.

About the Company

Neura Robotics

Cognitive robots with perception, manipulation, collaboration

Neura Robotics builds cognitive robots for industrial and service settings, combining perception, manipulation, and human collaboration. It develops both the hardware and the software stack for Physical AI, creating robot platforms like MAiRA, MAV, LARA and MiPA along with training infrastructure. The system works by integrating sensing, decision-making, and manipulation capabilities on a hardware-software stack that can be deployed in large-scale production, with the company planning robots fleets and NEURA Gyms for ongoing training and improvement. What sets Neura Robotics apart is its end-to-end approach to Physical AI, including a focus on mass production, an established global deployment plan, and a broad ecosystem of strategic backers and partners that support scaling and international expansion. The goal is to enable worldwide deployment of its robot platforms and associated training infrastructure, turning physical AI into widely available industrial and service automation.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Series C
Total funding
$1.7B
Headquarters
Metzingen, Germany
Founded
2019

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