Teamlead AI Engineering - NEURAGym (Mensch)

The role

You will lead a team of AI Engineers to transform partner expertise into robot capabilities. You will manage data collection, teleoperation, model training, and deployment for the NEURA Gym network.

What you will do

• Build, hire, coach, and lead a team of AI Engineers.
• Take technical responsibility for relationships with NEURA Gym partners.
• Evaluate new use cases and technical feasibility.
• Select algorithms and define data collection strategies.
• Ensure the training pipeline runs smoothly from teleoperation to deployment.
• Work with on-site Robotics Engineers during live data collection and experiments.
• Provide hands-on technical support for training pipelines and model bugs.
• Act as a bridge between NEURA Gym, Cloud, and Core-AI teams.
• Shape the product roadmap based on real deployment learnings.
• Define and take responsibility for key metrics like Skill Success Rate and data efficiency.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Practical experience in developing Machine Learning solutions for robotics.
• Expertise in at least two of: Vision-based manipulation, Reinforcement and/or Imitation Learning, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, multimodal Foundation models or related Embodied-AI approaches.
• Experience leading engineers, projects, or technical initiatives.
• Practical experience with Machine Learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Solid Python skills.
• Experience with physical robot systems and relevant robotics software stacks and middleware.
• Proven success in implementing complex robotics or AI projects from conception to deployment.
• Strong communication skills to mediate between researchers, engineers, and customers.
• Business fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience with C++
• Familiarity with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Familiarity with robotic simulation environments like Isaac Sim or MuJoCo
• German language skills

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh is developing NEURA Gym, a global network of physical training centers where robots learn industrial tasks from humans.