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# Senior AI Engineer - Environmental Awareness and Visual Reasoning (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:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neura-robotics-gmbh/ac5c984b-eb4c-4562-8834-f83ebbd8b007

## Job description

At NEURA Robotics, cognitive robots don’t just execute commands. They perceive their surroundings, understand them, reason, and act autonomously in the physical world. Our robotic foundation models handle the physical execution. Above them sits the embodied agent: the part that interprets what the robot sees, maintains an up-to-date world state, and uses that understanding to decide what to do next. We’re looking for an AI Engineer with strong hands-on experience in visual perception and reasoning to build this environmental awareness for our humanoid platform and connect it to reliable task planning and execution.

## Your mission & challenges

- Visual reasoning & world state: You build the robot’s understanding of its surroundings using visual perception and VLMs. You ground language in the scene, reason about spatial relationships and affordances, and maintain a working representation of objects, their states, and the task history as new observations arrive. You make uncertainty and environmental changes available to the agent, so its decisions stay grounded in what is actually happening.
- Task decomposition & long-horizon planning: You turn high-level human intent into ordered, executable steps, each with the preconditions, spatial references, and success criteria it needs. You sequence them so the robot can work through a task it has never seen in that exact form before.
- Closed-loop execution & recovery: You verify each step against observation instead of assuming success. You detect divergence from the plan and replan, retry, or escalate to a human when the risk is too high.
- Evaluation on the robot: You evaluate scene understanding, visual grounding, world-state consistency, and task success in simulation and on real hardware. You build failure taxonomies from real runs and use them to distinguish perception and reasoning failures from planning, interface, and execution failures.
- Embodied agent harness: You design and build the agent that runs on our humanoid platform: the loop from sensor input to reasoning to action, its interfaces to cameras, depth sensing, and proprioception, and the state management that keeps a task coherent over minutes rather than seconds.
- Cross-functional collaboration: You work closely with our foundation model, perception, manipulation, and hardware teams to take the reasoning layer from concept to reliable behavior on a deployed robot.

## What we can look forward to

- Education: A Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through shipped work.
- Visual perception & VLMs: Strong hands-on experience with visual perception and VLMs: grounding language in images, understanding objects and their states, spatial and physical reasoning, and producing structured scene representations an agent can act on. You have integrated these capabilities into working systems and understand their failure modes under ambiguity, occlusion, and changing viewpoints.
- Agent systems: Demonstrated experience building agent systems on top of LLMs and VLMs that decompose tasks, plan, use tools, and maintain state over long horizons, rather than single-turn prompt work.
- Work on physical robots: Several years of hands-on work on physical robots, not only in simulation. You bring your own code onto a real platform, run it there, and debug a system that behaves differently once it has a body.
- Hierarchical autonomy: Familiarity with hierarchical autonomy, where a reasoning model plans and learned or classical policies execute: subgoal interfaces, progress verification, and replanning.
- Middleware & onboard deployment: Experience with robotics middleware and onboard deployment: ROS 2, inference on embedded GPUs, and working within a real latency budget.
- Software engineering: Solid engineering practice: clean code, testing, and services other teams can build against. Cloud, containerization, and CI/CD experience is a plus.
- Languages: Excellent English. German is a plus.

## 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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