Head of Robotic AI Applications – NEURA Automation (human) at Neura Robotics (Metzingen, Germany / Riederich, Germany)
Neura Robotics· Metzingen, Germany / Riederich, Germany·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
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
- 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.
WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO
- 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.
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.