Job Description
Give our robots consciousness
In the AI Department, you'll develop the cognitive abilities of our robots, enabling them to understand and react to the world around them. You'll work on the algorithms that make machines intelligent and adaptive – from object recognition and speech processing to decision-making in complex environments. Here, you'll be part of a team that pushes technological boundaries and collaborates closely with other departments such as software, hardware, and product management. Using state-of-the-art tools and methods from machine learning and AI, you'll work on projects that are directly reflected in our products. If you're passionate about making machines smarter and shaping the next level of human-machine interaction, the AI Department is the perfect place for you.
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Full-time
Riederich
At NEURA Robotics, cognitive robots don't simply execute commands. They perceive, think, plan over long time horizons, and act autonomously in the physical world. We are looking for an engineer to build the systems that make this possible: the agent harnesses, planning loops, and orchestration layers that transform a language model into a reliable, embodied agent.
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Agent Architecture & Harness Design: You will design and build the central agent harness for our humanoid platform: the control loop, tool/skill interfaces, state and memory management, retries and guardrails that ensure reliable, long-running autonomous behavior.
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Long-term planning & orchestration: You build systems that break down high-level human intentions into multi-stage plans, orchestrate skills and sub-agents, track execution status, recover from failures, and escalate to human oversight in case of high risk.
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Conversational AI for embodied interaction: You design the real-time speech stack: STT LLM TTS pipeline with robust turn-taking logic, barge-in handling and addressee recognition, so that the robot recognizes when it is being addressed and responds naturally under real latency conditions.
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Backend & Platform Engineering: You build the production backend behind the agent: well-designed APIs and interfaces, distributed services that connect sub-agents to the main agent, and edge-to-cloud deployment across the entire NEURA ecosystem.
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Evaluation & Industrialization: You build evaluation harnesses and observability that measure whether agents actually perform tasks correctly, and bring promising prototypes to an industrialized, productive solution.
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Cross-functional collaboration: You work closely with hardware/software teams and external partners to guide agentic capabilities from concept to a reliable end-to-end product.
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A strong Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through completed work.
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Proven experience in building productive agent systems with measurable impact: agents that plan, use tools, manage states and run reliably over long periods – not just single-turn prompting.
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In-depth, practical experience with agent frameworks and orchestration such as LangGraph, AgentCore, MCP or custom orchestrators, as well as a clear sense of when an agent and when a deterministic workflow makes sense.
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Professional backend engineering experience: production services, API and interface design, distributed architectures and microservices, clean code, testing and DevOps discipline.
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Cloud and edge-to-cloud experience, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and deployment and serving of models and services in production.
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Solid knowledge of LLMs, VLMs and NLP.
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Excellent Python.
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Excellent English. German is an advantage.
What you can look forward to
Design freedom and agility
Performance-oriented and self-reliant work culture with flat hierarchies, flexible working hours and 30 days of paid vacation.
To gain passion
A passionate and highly qualified team of international experts who want to redefine robot assistants.
Attractive compensation
Competitive salary package plus special employee discounts.
One Team
Whether it's a summer party or company town hall meetings – we celebrate successes together.
Further development
Support for your personal and professional development.
Our company values. The cornerstones of our success.
We are a team. We strive to achieve great things by fostering the success of our colleagues and partners.
We strive for technological progress to give people back their valuable time for enjoyable activities.
We strive to revolutionize the world of robotics by pushing the boundaries of technology every day.
Through open communication and transparency, we cultivate a high level of mutual respect.
We strive to always be two steps ahead. We achieve this through empowerment, freedom of action, and personal responsibility.
People are at the heart of everything we do.
Our location
Our headquarters in Metzingen and Riederich are the heart of our company. Here you'll find not only our offices, but also production, the academy, logistics, and tech labs – all combined to bring ideas to life. Riederich itself is a small, quiet village, just one kilometer from Metzingen, a city with its own unique character.
Metzingen is known worldwide as an outlet city and attracts people from all over the globe. Here you can enjoy exclusive designer shops in a relaxed, charming atmosphere. At the same time, the city offers restaurants, cafés, and down-to-earth Swabian hospitality – ideal for unwinding after work.
