Physical AI Engineer - NeuraGym (Aachen) (human)

The role

You will drive the development of cognitive robotics applications using Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform. You will execute the full pipeline from teleoperation and training to deployment and validation on customer robots.

What you will do

• Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform
• Execute the full NeuraGym pipeline including teleoperation, data annotation, training, simulation, deployment, and validation
• Take policies from checkpoint to real-time closed-loop control
• Act as the primary technical contact for customers adopting Physical AI
• Work directly on MAiRA, MiPA, LARA, and humanoid platforms
• Enable customer organizations to train their own colleagues
• Guide and onboard users to NeuraGym by reviewing pipelines and troubleshooting model behavior
• Serve as a key interface between the Cloud and AI teams
• Build evaluation harnesses, success-rate benchmarks, and regression tests
• Translate field experience into feedback for product and research roadmaps

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on machine-learning experience in robotics in vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal models
• Experience fine-tuning large pretrained models for robotics or another domain: PEFT/LoRA and full fine-tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation
• Solid Python skills
• Practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Proven experience in customer-facing technical roles
• Solid understanding of robot hardware including drives, joint modules, torque sensing, encoders, end-effectors, sensor integration, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces, and functional safe
• Proven problem-solving abilities
• Ability to handle multiple projects in parallel
• Good command of English and German (B2–C1 level)
• Willingness to travel frequently to customer sites and NeuraGyms (approx. 40–60%)

Nice to have

• C++
• Familiarity with the open VLA and policy-learning ecosystem (e.g., π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, LeRobot, diffusion policies)

About the company

The employer is neura-robotics-gmbh.