Head of Robotic AI Applications – NEURA Automation (human)

The role

You will build and lead a team of Robotic AI Application Engineers. You will own end-to-end customer deployments and partner with Product Management and R&D to shape product development.

What you will do

• Recruit, lead, and grow a team of Robotic AI Application Engineers
• Take full ownership of customer deployments from feasibility to final acceptance
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex customer projects
• Partner with Product Management and R&D to ensure customer insights shape product development
• Define processes, tooling, and quality standards for deployment and handover
• Manage project prioritization and resource allocation
• Lead the applications team in customer-facing meetings and strategic discussions
• Mentor team members

Required qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field or comparable qualifications and practical experience
• Several years of hands-on experience deploying robotic or AI-based systems in customer or field environments
• Proven track record leading or mentoring a technical team
• Demonstrated success managing complex customer projects from planning through successful go-live
• Confidence working directly with customers at senior level
• Excellent stakeholder management

Nice to have

• German language skills