Head of Robotic AI Applications - NEURA Automation (human)
Software Engineering, IT, Data Science
72 Riederich, Germany
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Head of Robotic AI Applications – NEURA Automation (human)
Neura Robotics • Riederich
Give Our Robots Consciousness
In the AI Department, you'll develop the cognitive abilities of our robots, enabling them to understand and interact with their surroundings. You'll work on algorithms that make machines intelligent and adaptive—ranging from object recognition and language processing to decision-making in complex environments. You'll be part of a team that pushes technological boundaries and collaborates closely with software, hardware, and product management teams. Using cutting-edge tools and methods from machine learning and AI, you'll work on projects that have a direct impact on our products. If you're excited about making machines smarter and shaping the future of human-machine interaction, the AI Department is the perfect place for you.
- Full-time
Riederich
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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.
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Own end-to-end delivery: Take full ownership of customer deployments — from feasibility assessment and project planning through on-site integration and final acceptance.
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Be the senior escalation point: Act as the go-to authority for complex customer projects, ensuring technical, timeline, and quality expectations are met.
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Close the feedback loop: Partner with Product Management and R&D to ensure customer and field insights shape future product development.
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Establish scalable standards: Define processes, tooling, and quality standards for deployment, configuration, and customer handover across projects and sites.
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Steer priorities and resources: Manage project prioritization and resource allocation across multiple concurrent customer engagements.
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Represent us externally: Lead the applications team in customer-facing meetings and strategic discussions, building trust and long-term relationships.
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Develop your people: Mentor team members and foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and customer focus.
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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.
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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.
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Leadership experience: Proven track record leading or mentoring a technical team, ideally in a customer-facing or field engineering context.
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Project delivery: Demonstrated success managing complex customer projects from planning through successful go-live.
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Customer proximity: Confidence working directly with customers at senior level, including willingness to travel.
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Communication skills: Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to balance customer needs against engineering and product realities.
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Languages: Professional proficiency in English; German language skills are a plus.
What you can look forward to
Creative Freedom and Agility
Enjoy a dynamic, self-reliant work culture with flat hierarchies, flexible hours, and 30 vacation days. Ideal for those seeking an inspiring professional setting, whether you're starting out or an experienced exec.
Passion for Winning
A passionate and highly skilled team of international experts aiming to redefine robot assistants.
Attractive Compensation
Enjoy a competitive salary package along with exclusive employee discounts.
One Team
Whether it's a summer party or company town hall meetings, we celebrate our successes together.
Professional Growth
Support for your personal and professional development.
Our values. The cornerstones of our success.
We are a team. We strive to achieve great things by promoting the success of our colleagues and partners.
We strive for technological progress in order to give people back their valuable time for enjoyable activities.
We strive to revolutionize the world of robotics by pushing the boundaries of technology every day.
We live a high level of appreciation through open communication and transparency.
We do our best to always be two steps ahead. We achieve this through empowerment, freedom of action and personal responsibility.
People are at the center of everything we do.
Our Location
Our headquarters in Metzingen and Riederich are the heart of our company. It's not just home to our offices, but also our production facilities, Academy, logistics, and Tech Labs—all working together to turn ideas into reality. Riederich itself is a small, peaceful town, just a kilometer away from Metzingen, a city with its own unique character. Metzingen is globally renowned as Outlet City, attracting visitors from all over the world. Here, you can enjoy exclusive designer stores in a relaxed and charming setting. The city also offers a variety of restaurants, cafés, and a down-to-earth Swabian coziness—perfect for unwinding after work.
Our application process
We ensure a transparent and efficient process and look forward to getting to know you during the application process.
Your insight into our daily work
Unsere Mission
"Our goal was to develop the world's first cognitive robot that can work with people, learn from them and provide them with targeted support. And that is exactly what we have achieved. But there is much more to come!"