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

The role

You will build environmental awareness for a humanoid platform using visual perception and VLMs. You will develop task decomposition, long-horizon planning, and closed-loop execution systems for physical robots.

What you will do

• Build the robot's understanding of surroundings using visual perception and VLMs
• Turn high-level human intent into ordered, executable steps
• Verify each step against observation and handle replanning or recovery
• Evaluate scene understanding and task success in simulation and on real hardware
• Design and build the agent that runs on the humanoid platform
• Collaborate with foundation model, perception, manipulation, and hardware teams

Required qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through shipped work
• Strong hands-on experience with visual perception and VLMs
• Demonstrated experience building agent systems on top of LLMs and VLMs
• Several years of hands-on work on physical robots
• Familiarity with hierarchical autonomy
• Experience with robotics middleware and onboard deployment including ROS 2 and inference on embedded GPUs
• Solid engineering practice including clean code and testing
• Excellent English

Nice to have

• Cloud, containerization, and CI/CD experience
• German

About the company

NEURA Robotics develops cognitive robots that perceive, understand, reason, and act autonomously in the physical world.