Robotic Foundation Model Engineer (human)
Metzingen / RiederichFullTimePosted May 26, 2026
Job description
YOUR MISSION & CHALLENGES
- Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the Neura. Gym platform.
- Training & Fine-tuning: Take foundation models to production-ready robotic intelligence by executing the full Neura. Gym pipeline — including teleoperation, data annotation, training, simulation, deployment, and validation — tailored to real-world robotics applications.
- Hands-on robotics: Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, build, and optimize next-generation intelligent robotic systems powered by AI.
- AI Consulting for Neura. Gym Users: Act as a trusted technical advisor by assessing project feasibility, selecting suitable algorithms, and defining effective data collection and training strategies.
- Customer Enablement & Support: Guide and onboard users to Neura. Gym by reviewing training pipelines and scripts, identifying data quality issues, troubleshooting model behavior, and providing hands-on support to resolve persistent blockers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a key interface between the Cloud and AI teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical alignment, and efficient problem-solving across domains.
- Product & Research Feedback Loop: Translate field experience and customer insights into actionable feedback for both the Neura. Gym product roadmap and the Neura core AI roadmap WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field - 3+ years hands-on machine-learning experience in robotics - strong in at least one of: vision-based manipulation, reinforcement/imitation learning, or multimodal models - and keen to learn the rest
- Solid Python skills (C++ a plus); practical experience with Py. Torch or Tensor. Flow Comfortable working directly with real robot hardware and associated middleware
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with robotic simulation tools (Isaac. Sim, Mu. JoCo, etc.) is a plus
- Proven problem-solving abilities and ability to handle multiple projects in parallel
- Clear communicator who can translate between researchers, engineers and end-users. You have a good command of English and German language (B2
- C1 level)