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title: 'Tech Lead — Robot Systems & Integration (human) at Neura Robotics'
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# Tech Lead — Robot Systems & Integration (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:** 2026-04-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neura-robotics-gmbh/282bd365-7339-4385-a828-0ba21c15066f/application

**Skills:** C++, RTOS, RT Scheduling, Motion Planning, EtherCAT, ROS2, Hardware Interface Design, Lock-free programming, RT-aware behavior trees, WCET analysis, Yocto BSP, Xenomai, PREEMPT_RT, RT OS kernel development, Motion planning pipeline production, Industrial functional safety, Real-time execution engines, Open-source contributions

> The Staff Engineer owns the technical architecture for robot systems integration, including RT scheduling, middleware, hardware drivers, and motion planning pipelines. This individual contributor role involves setting design decisions, resolving cross-layer integration conflicts, and providing technical leadership t...

## Job description

## Your mission & challenges

Every NEURA robot runs on a foundation of systems integration work: the real-time OS that guarantees microsecond scheduling on bare metal, the hardware interface layer that abstracts every sensor and actuator, the motion planning pipeline that generates the trajectories robots execute, and the industrial device servers that connect robots to factory automation systems. As Staff Engineer for our Robot Systems & Integration cluster, you own the technical architecture of that foundation. This is a pure individual contributor role. You carry no people management responsibility. Your authority is technical: you set architectural direction, hold design decisions within your scope, and resolve the cross-layer integration conflicts that arise when OS scheduling, middleware, hardware drivers, and motion planning pipelines all meet at the same seam. You will provide technical leadership to engineers across platform guild and product-anchor roles. You write code, lead design reviews, author technical RFCs, and maintain current hands-on expertise. This is not an architecture-only position.

- Own the RT scheduling policy that all software in this cluster must respect: priority assignment standards, memory locking requirements, and interrupt latency contracts for 1 kHz control loops and 500 Hz state estimation
- Own the co-review protocol at the boundary between RT OS scheduling and the EtherCAT master — any board support package change must pass a joint latency budget review before merge; you own this process alongside the Robot Communication cluster lead
- Ensure the unified compute platform engineers have clear RT OS architecture guidance and that every robot platform profile's timing budget is validated after each hardware revision
- Own the motion planning pipeline architectural direction: planner selection criteria, planning stack configuration standards, and atomic skill primitive API design and evolution across all robot platforms
- Enforce the shared skill primitive library: patterns surfaced from product-specific stream work must go through design review before being forked platform-specifically; you enforce this at code review
- Define the server/protocol boundary in industrial integration: the protocol stack belongs to the Robot Communication cluster; the server layer — command dispatch, state machine integration, hardware interfaces — belongs here; you arbitrate when server architecture and protocol constraints conflict
- Own the end-effector server architecture: gripper lifecycle management, tool change sequencing, and the hardware interface contracts that motion planning and the operational state machine depend on
- Lead quarterly cluster knowledge days: peer-to-peer problem exchange where every engineer brings one unsolved and one solved problem; output is a shared library ticket or design document, never slides
- Write design documents that reduce knowledge concentration; mentor Senior engineers toward Staff level; drive cluster hiring sourcing

## What we can look forward to

- Robot systems integration depth (at least two of the following, in depth)
- Embedded Linux systems integration at the RT level: Yocto BSP development, RT kernel tuning (Xenomai or PREEMPT_RT), RT scheduling design, and WCET analysis on production robot hardware — not simulation
- ROS2 (or equivalent) hardware interface architecture: e.g. ros2_control hardware interface lifecycle, Nav2 and SLAM integration on physical mobile platforms, diagnostics framework design
- Motion planning pipeline for production manipulation: MoveIt2 planning stack, OMPL planner configuration and tuning, manipulation primitive library design — deployed on real robot hardware, not only in simulation
- Industrial device integration at the server layer: hardware interface design for fieldbus-connected devices, gripper lifecycle management server architecture, functional safety constraints in state machine dispatch
- Real-time skill execution or soft-RT scheduling: deterministic scheduling for action dispatch, worst-case latency analysis, RT-aware behaviour tree implementation in a production context
- Systems integration breadth
- Sufficient understanding across the full stack to review MRs and arbitrate design decisions spanning OS, middleware, motion planning, and device integration domains simultaneously
- Demonstrated experience debugging cross-layer failures at the OS–middleware–hardware boundary: RT scheduling overruns, ROS2 (or other middleware) executor latency issues under 1 kHz RT constraints, hardware interface failures during robot bring-up
- C++17/20 systems programming: lock-free patterns, RAII, RT-safe memory management, 1 kHz control loop discipline
- Staff-level leadership (mandatory)
- Demonstrated cross-team architectural impact: your design decisions changed how multiple teams work, not just your own domain
- RFC or design document leadership with cross-team reach: you have resolved integration conflicts between teams and had your proposal adopted as the standard
- Mentoring track record: at least one engineer you have materially accelerated toward a senior or staff-equivalent level
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with a strong robot systems integration focus
- Nice to have
- RT OS kernel-level experience combined with ROS2 (other other middleware) depth — candidates who have debugged failures spanning both layers are rare and highly valued
- Experience shipping a motion planning pipeline from development through to production on a manipulator or mobile manipulator
- Industrial functional safety background at the software architecture level
- Real-time execution engine implementation experience (not just usage)
- Open-source contributions to robot systems infrastructure: ros2_control, MoveIt2, Nav2, Xenomai, or equivalent

## 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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