In the AI Department, you'll develop the cognitive abilities of our robots, enabling them to understand and interact with their surroundings. You'll work on algorithms that make machines intelligent and adaptive—ranging from object recognition and language processing to decision-making in complex environments. You'll be part of a team that pushes technological boundaries and collaborates closely with software, hardware, and product management teams. Using cutting-edge tools and methods from machine learning and AI, you'll work on projects that have a direct impact on our products. If you're excited about making machines smarter and shaping the future of human-machine interaction, the AI Department is the perfect place for you.
Robotic Foundation Model Engineer Intern (Human)
Neura Robotics • Aachen
Give Our Robots Consciousness
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Full-time
Aachen
from today
Your mission & challenges
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Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform.
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Training & Fine-tuning cutting-edge models: Take foundation models to production-ready robotic intelligence by executing the full NeuraGym pipeline — including teleoperation, data annotation, training, simulation, deployment, and validation — tailored to real-world robotics applications. Define the data strategy that makes a fine-tune work and own the full post-training loop inlcuding hyperparamter interation, data mixture, LoRA and a honest evaluation.
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Hands-on robotics: Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, build, and optimize next-generation intelligent robotic systems powered by AI.
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Customer Enablement & Support: Guide and onboard users to NeuraGym by reviewing training pipelines and scripts, identifying data quality issues, troubleshooting model behavior, and providing hands-on support to resolve persistent blockers.
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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.
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Product & Research Feedback Loop: Translate field experience and customer insights into actionable feedback for both the NeuraGym product roadmap and the Neura core AI roadmap
What we can look forward to
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Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field
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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
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Demonstrable experience fine-tuning large pretrained models for robotics or another domain: PEFT/LoRA and full fine-tunes, dataset curation, distillation, and evaluation. Familiarity with the open VLA and policy-learning ecosystem (e.g. π0/π0.5, OpenVLA, LeRobot, diffusion policies) is a strong plus
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Solid Python skills (C++ a plus); practical experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
Comfortable working directly with real robot hardware and associated middleware -
Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with robotic simulation tools (IsaacSim, MuJoCo, etc.) is a plus
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Proven problem-solving abilities and ability to handle multiple projects in parallel
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Strong bias toward execution and a high level of personal commitment: you take deployments personally, work through setbacks, and measure yourself by what runs at the customer
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Clear communicator who can translate between researchers, engineers and end-users. You have a good command of English and German language (B2 - C1 level)
What you can look forward to
Creative Freedom and Agility
Enjoy a dynamic, self-reliant work culture with flat hierarchies, flexible hours, and 30 vacation days. Ideal for those seeking an inspiring professional setting, whether you're starting out or an experienced exec.
Passion for Winning
A passionate and highly skilled team of international experts aiming to redefine robot assistants.
Attractive Compensation
Enjoy a competitive salary package along with exclusive employee discounts.
One Team
Whether it's a summer party or company town hall meetings, we celebrate our successes together.
Professional Growth
Support for your personal and professional development.
Our values. The cornerstones of our success.
STRONGER TOGETHER
We are a team. We strive to achieve great things by promoting the success of our colleagues and partners.
PASSION DRIVES US
We strive for technological progress in order to give people back their valuable time for enjoyable activities.
MAKING A CHANGE
We strive to revolutionize the world of robotics by pushing the boundaries of technology every day.
TRUST AND HONESTY
We live a high level of appreciation through open communication and transparency.
WE SPEED THINGS UP
We do our best to always be two steps ahead. We achieve this through empowerment, freedom of action and personal responsibility.
WE ARE HUMAN
People are at the center of everything we do.
Our application process
We ensure a transparent and efficient process and look forward to getting to know you during the application process.
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Unsere Mission
David Reger
Gründer und CEO
"Our goal was to develop the world's first cognitive robot that can work with people, learn from them and provide them with targeted support. And that is exactly what we have achieved. But there is much more to come!"
