
Group Lead Edge AI (human) at Neura Robotics (Metzingen, Germany / Riederich, Germany)
Neura Robotics· Metzingen, Germany / Riederich, Germany·
Role details
Neura Robotics at a glance
German cognitive-robotics company building humanoid and collaborative robots that see, hear, feel, and learn to work alongside people.
NEURA Robotics designs cognitive robots (humanoids, collaborative arms, and mobile bases) plus the AI and platform that run them, all built in-house. Its flagship 4NE1 humanoid targets industrial workflows and everyday assistance, and the Neuraverse platform links deployed robots into a shared learning network.
~$1.7B+ raised · latest: Series C · up to $1.4B · June 2026 · backed by Tether, Amazon, NVIDIA, Qualcomm
Job description
Your Mission & Challenges
As Group Lead Edge AI, you own the team that turns cutting-edge models into production-grade, on-device intelligence. You set the technical direction, make the hard calls on hardware and architecture, and stay hands-on enough to dive into a profiler when things get tough.
- Own the roadmap: Drive on-device AI from research to shipped product.
- Build and lead the team: Hire, mentor, and grow a team of edge AI engineers into the best in the field.
- Deploy at the edge: Take models from trained to deployed using quantization, pruning, distillation, and every trick it takes to make them fast and lean on embedded accelerator platforms (e.g. NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm IQ-series).
- Own the toolchain end to end: Cover model export and inference optimization frameworks (e.g. ONNX, TensorRT, AIMET) and the SDKs that turn a model into a working robot behavior.
- Partner across functions: Work with Hardware, Software, and Product to push the limits of what fits in the latency, power, and memory budget you're given.
- Set the bar for quality: Own benchmarking, on-device evaluation, and performance regression testing across every hardware target we ship.
- Get hands-on when it counts: Debug an accuracy drop after quantization, chase down a latency spike, solve the problem nobody else can.
What We Can Look Forward To
- Strong academic foundation: An excellent Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related field.
- Proven experience: 7+ years in ML or embedded AI engineering, with 2+ years leading technically. Real production deployment on embedded accelerators, not just papers.
- Hardware fluency: Hands-on experience with embedded AI hardware platforms (e.g. NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm IQ-series, or comparable).
- Optimization mastery: Deep expertise in model optimization from the model side to the metal: quantization, pruning, distillation, and architecture search.
- Toolchain expertise: Fluency with common model optimization and deployment toolchains (e.g. ONNX, TensorRT, AIMET, or equivalent vendor SDKs).
- Technical depth: Strong Python and C++, PyTorch experience, and comfort with embedded Linux and low-level profiling.
- The right mindset: A conviction that the only real test is the target chip, not the training cluster.
- Leadership & communication: The ability to lead engineers, make calls under uncertainty, and speak fluently to researchers, hardware engineers, and product alike. Professional English required; German a strong plus (B2 to C1).
Why work at Neura Robotics
- 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.