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# Engineering Manager (human) at Neura Robotics

- **Company:** [Neura Robotics](https://feeny.ai/companies/neura-robotics)
- **Location:** Metzingen, Germany / Riederich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neura-robotics-gmbh/f81fa702-ef68-436f-aeaa-6422e748b6c3/application

**Skills:** Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Robot Middleware, Motion Planning, Fleet Connectivity, English, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Advanced Manufacturing, German Language

> The Engineering Manager will drive the career development and performance of a team of 18-22 robotics software engineers. Responsibilities include end-to-end hiring, performance management, technical mentorship, and ensuring team health and productivity in a product engineering environment.

## Job description

## YOUR MISSION & CHALLENGES

NEURA's Core Robot Software department is scaling through a deliberate structural transition. At ~50 engineers, one Technical Lead can no longer maintain meaningful career conversations with every engineer while also running sprint allocation across eight concurrent product streams. Engineering Managers are the answer to that specific problem — and this is one of those roles.

Your mission is to make 18–22 robotics software engineers as effective as possible over time: growing in their careers, performing well, and doing well as people. Technical architecture is not your domain — that is owned by Staff Engineers and the Platform Architect on the individual contributor track. Sprint allocation is owned by the Engineering Director. Your scope is people, and that scope is real and demanding.

Your team spans multiple technical specialisations — real-time systems, robot middleware, motion planning, fleet connectivity — and a range of seniority levels. You do not need to be the expert in every domain your engineers work in. You do need enough technical literacy to understand their work, recognise when someone is genuinely stuck, and have a credible conversation about what a Senior engineer needs to do to become a Staff engineer in their specific field.

- Own every engineer's career trajectory: maintain a live understanding of where each person is, what they are working toward, and what is in the way
- Run trigger-based promotion reviews when evidence is ready — not on annual cycles; assemble review panels, ensure fairness, and advocate for your engineers in cross-team calibration
- Identify and address performance issues early, directly, and with a concrete improvement plan before they become a team problem
- Conduct regular 1:1s focused on the person — project status has its own ceremonies
- Monitor wellbeing; be the person engineers come to when work is hard for non-technical reasons; surface burnout, disengagement, and friction before they compound
- Own hiring end-to-end for open roles: sourcing strategy, interview process design, offer decisions, and the candidate experience; ensure new engineers land well in their first 90 days
- Represent your team's interests and constraints in Director-level planning; surface resourcing problems, morale signals, and structural issues before they become crises
- Partner with the Staff Engineers who provide technical leadership to your team — your job is to ensure the people and team health conditions exist for their technical authority to be effective

## WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO

- People management experience
- 3+ years of direct engineering management experience: you have managed at least 6 engineers through hiring, performance management, and career development in a product engineering environment
- A concrete track record of developing engineers: you can name specific engineers whose careers you advanced and describe what you actually did
- Experience running performance improvement processes — improving performance where possible, not just ending it
- Full hiring ownership: you have run the end-to-end hiring cycle for technical roles, not only participated in interviews
- Technical background
- A software engineering background sufficient for credible technical conversations with robotics engineers: you understand what a control loop is, why real-time constraints matter, and what makes embedded systems hard
- You do not need to be a robotics specialist — you need enough technical literacy that engineers feel you genuinely understand their work, even if not at the expert level
- Prior engineering management in embedded systems, robotics, or adjacent hardware-software domains is a strong advantage
- Communication and judgment
- Clear, direct written and verbal communication in English; able to give hard feedback without it feeling like an attack
- Sound judgment under ambiguity: you make reasonable decisions with incomplete information and own them
- Experience holding a team together through the high-pressure periods that come with hardware deadlines — you have been through at least one product launch cycle as a manager
- Low ego: your success is measured through your engineers' growth and delivery, not your own direct technical contributions
- Organisational sensibility
- Comfortable operating in an organisation where people management and technical authority are explicitly separated — you partner with Staff Engineers on technical matters without either fully deferring to them or overriding them on decisions that are not yours
- Clear understanding of the boundary: you own careers, performance, wellbeing, and hiring; architecture and sprint allocation belong elsewhere
- Nice to have
- Engineering management experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or advanced manufacturing
- Experience managing engineers across multiple technical specialisations simultaneously Experience scaling a team through growth: hiring from 6 to 20+ engineers while maintaining team health
- German language skills

## About Neura Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NEURA Robotics develops cognitive robots that see, hear, feel, and learn, designed to work alongside humans in industrial, service, and household settings.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C — raised up to $1.4 billion as of 2025/2026)
- **Headquarters**: Metzingen, Germany (with offices in Bielefeld and Munich, and US locations in preparation)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: David Reger

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cognitive Robotics, Humanoid Robotics, Industrial Automation, AI
- **Target customers**: B2B (industrial clients, integrators, strategic partners); also B2C via household robots like MiPA
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We serve humanity by creating robots that give people back their time for what matters most. Our mission is to expand human potential through cognitive robotics that work safely alongside us."

## Products & Services
- **4NE1**: Production-ready humanoid robot designed for industrial workflows and everyday assistance, powered by proprietary AI (AURA). Built for mass production.
- **MAiRA (Multi-sensing Intelligent Robotic Assistant)**: The world's first cognitive robot arm — a collaborative robot that senses, responds, and adapts.
- **LARA (Lightweight Agile Robotic Assistant)**: Collaborative industrial robot for agile, lightweight automation tasks.
- **MiPA (My Intelligent Personal Assistant)**: Humanoid service and household robot for home assistance.
- **MAV (Multisensing Autonomous Vehicle)**: Mobile transport robot for logistics and material handling.
- **NEURA OmniSensor**: Proprietary sensor technology enabling robots to perceive their environment.
- **Neuraverse**: A global platform connecting robots, developers, and partners into a shared intelligence network where every deployment makes each robot smarter. Also serves as a marketplace for robotics applications.
- **NEURA Gyms**: Real-world training facilities where robots learn complex tasks in controlled environments to generate high-quality data for AI model validation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total investment >€100 million in 2023; Series C up to $1.4 billion (2025/2026); 2024 revenue in mid-double-digit million euros; 2025 target: triple-digit million euros
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lingotto Investment Management, BlueCrest Capital Management, InterAlpen Partners, Vsquared Ventures, HV Capital, Delta Electronics, C4 Ventures, Primepulse, L-Bank, Volvo Cars Tech Fund. Strategic partners include Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler, NVIDIA, and AWS.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,400 employees from more than 45 countries (up from 300+ in 2024). Four of the world's ten largest robotics companies use NEURA's technology under their own brand. Deployed across Europe, US, China, and Japan. Europe's first production-ready humanoid robot (4NE1) launched.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full vertical integration**: Develops all software, hardware, and platform technologies in-house, giving full control over performance, safety, and reliability.
- **Cognitive robotics pioneer**: Coined the term "cognitive robotics" — robots that perceive, learn, and adapt in real-time, unlike traditional industrial robots.
- **Neuraverse platform**: World's first platform connecting cognitive robots into a shared intelligence network, creating a data moat as every deployment improves all robots.
- **White-label partnerships**: Four of the top 10 global robotics companies OEM NEURA's technology, creating deep industry lock-in.
- **Diverse product range**: From collaborative robot arms (MAiRA, LARA) to humanoids (4NE1, MiPA) and autonomous vehicles (MAV), covering industrial, service, and household use cases.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling production**: Rapidly scaling robot production to meet growing demand, with Europe's first production-ready humanoid robot.
- **Expanding the Neuraverse**: Building the world's largest repository of real-world robotics data through shared learning across all deployed robots.
- **Global expansion**: Establishing US operations and strengthening presence in Japan and China.
- **B2B platform strategy**: Moving beyond hardware to become a platform company via the Neuraverse marketplace and NEURA Gyms.
- **Partnership ecosystem**: Deepening relationships with strategic partners like Bosch, Schaeffler, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and AWS.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Passion for Winning" — achievement-driven, self-responsible culture with flat hierarchies. Values include trust, honesty, speed, and "We Are Human" (people at the heart of everything).
- **Flexibility**: Flexible working hours, 30 days of vacation, and a hybrid-friendly environment.
- **Team**: Over 1,400 employees from more than 45 countries — highly skilled, international team of experts.
- **Growth & Development**: Support for personal and professional growth via Udemy training platform and more.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary package with exclusive employee discounts.
- **Perks**: Summer parties, company town hall meetings, and regular team celebrations.
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cognitive robotics and AI that directly addresses labor shortages and makes a meaningful societal impact.
- **Diversity**: Explicitly welcomes applications from all backgrounds, emphasizing building a team that reflects the world.
- **Application Process**: Fast — initial feedback within a few days, interviews scheduled within two weeks.

## Sources
1. [neura-robotics.com](https://neura-robotics.com/)
2. [press.neura-robotics.com](https://press.neura-robotics.com/factsheet-neura-robotics-en/)
3. [neura-robotics.com/company-about-us](https://neura-robotics.com/company-about-us/)
4. [jobs.neura-robotics.com](https://jobs.neura-robotics.com/)
5. [neura-robotics.com/press](https://neura-robotics.com/press/)

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