Senior AI Engineer - Environmental Awareness and Visual Reasoning (Mensch)

The role

You will build environmental understanding for a humanoid platform using visual perception and VLMs. You will develop task decomposition, long-horizon planning, and closed-loop execution for embodied agents.

What you will do

• Build robot understanding of the environment with Visual Perception and VLMs
• Translate high-level human intentions into ordered, executable steps
• Verify every step based on observation and handle deviations through replanning
• Evaluate scene understanding, visual grounding, and task success in simulation and on hardware
• Design and build the agent running on the humanoid platform
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Foundation-Model, Perception, Manipulation, and Hardware teams

Required qualifications

• Master or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent depth proven by delivered work
• Practical experience with Visual Perception and VLMs
• Experience with agent systems based on LLMs and VLMs
• Multi-year practical experience with real robots
• Familiarity with hierarchical autonomy
• Experience with robotics middleware and onboard deployment including ROS 2 and inference on embedded GPUs
• Clean code, solid testing, and services
• Excellent English

Nice to have

• Experience with Cloud, Containerization, and CI/CD
• German

About the company

At NEURA Robotics, cognitive robots perceive, understand, think, and act autonomously in the physical world. Their Robotic Foundation Models handle physical execution, while the Embodied Agent interprets vision and decides on actions.