Group Lead AI Engineering (human)

The role

You will own a sub-team within the AI department to execute the product roadmap. You will set technical direction, lead engineers, and drive research-to-production transitions for robot hardware.

What you will do

• Own the technical roadmap of your sub-team
• Lead and grow a high-performance team of AI engineers
• Recruit top talent and conduct technical interviews
• Drive research-to-production transitions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Software, Hardware and Product Management
• Define and track engineering quality
• Step in hands-on to review training runs and debug model behavior
• Aggregate lessons learned and feed them back into the core AI roadmap

Required qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of hands-on ML or robotics AI engineering
• At least 2 years in a formal or informal technical lead role
• Production systems experience
• Strong command of at least two of: vision-based perception, manipulation & control, reinforcement / imitation learning, multimodal foundation models, or scalable MLOps
• Strong Python
• Practical PyTorch or JAX experience
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD for ML systems
• Comfort working with real robot hardware and simulation environments (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, or equivalent)
• Proven ability to set technical direction, mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and make decisions under uncertainty
• Professional English required

Nice to have

• C++ is a plus
• German is a strong plus (B2–C1)

About the company

NEURA is scaling its AI department to execute on its product roadmap.