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Edge AI Engineer (human)

Neura Robotics GmbhMetzingen / Riederich🇩🇪GermanyPosted 5 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Location
Metzingen / Riederich, Germany
Posted
16 hours ago
Embedded SystemsMachine LearningRoboticsC++PyTorchPython

Job Description

Your mission & challenges

As Edge AI Engineer, you turn cutting-edge models into production-grade, on-device intelligence for our robots. You work hands-on at the intersection of machine learning, embedded systems, and robotics. Your focus is making models fast, lean, and reliable on the hardware we ship.

  • Deploy at the edge: Take models from trained to deployed using quantization, pruning, distillation, and every trick it takes to make them fast and lean on embedded accelerator platforms (e.g. NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm IQ-series).

  • Own the toolchain: Work across model export and inference optimization frameworks (e.g. ONNX, TensorRT, AIMET) and the SDKs that turn a model into a working robot behavior.

  • Optimize to the metal: Profile, analyze, and tune models and runtimes to meet the latency, power, and memory budgets of each hardware target.

  • Partner across functions: Work closely with Research, Hardware, Software, and Product to bring on-device AI from research to shipped product.

  • Set the bar for quality: Build and maintain benchmarking, on-device evaluation, and performance regression testing across every hardware target we ship.

  • Solve the hard problems: Debug an accuracy drop after quantization, chase down a latency spike, and tackle the problems that only show up on the real chip.

What we can look forward to

  • Strong academic foundation: A Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related field.

  • Proven experience: 3+ years in ML or embedded AI engineering, with real production deployment on embedded accelerators, not just papers.

  • Hardware fluency: Hands-on experience with embedded AI hardware platforms (e.g. NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm IQ-series, or comparable).

  • Optimization expertise: Solid knowledge of model optimization from the model side to the metal: quantization, pruning, distillation, and architecture search.

  • Toolchain expertise: Fluency with common model optimization and deployment toolchains (e.g. ONNX, TensorRT, AIMET, or equivalent vendor SDKs).

  • Technical depth: Strong Python and C++, PyTorch experience, and comfort with embedded Linux and low-level profiling.

  • The right mindset: A conviction that the only real test is the target chip, not the training cluster.

  • Collaboration & communication: The ability to work independently, make sound calls under uncertainty, and speak fluently to researchers, hardware engineers, and product alike. Professional English required; German is a strong plus (B2 to C1).