Compute Infrastructure Engineer – NeuraGym (human)

Neura Robotics
Metzingen / Riederich, Germany
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level infrastructure engineers who enjoy designing and maintaining distributed compute systems for robotics and AI.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in robotics or AI infrastructure and a preference for building from the ground up
    — “building a scalable compute and storage infrastructure for multimodal robot data”
  • Individuals who have worked with GPU scheduling and container orchestration in production environments
    — “Kubernetes clusters (or comparable orchestration) for data preprocessing workloads, including GPU scheduling”
  • Professionals with a background in system administration and hardware planning
    — “Server infrastructure planning: You plan and design the NeuraGym server infrastructure, including sizing of compute, GPU, storage and network”

Things to consider

  • The role demands hands-on work with physical hardware and server layout design, not just software tools
    — “rack layout, power and cooling concept, and procurement in coordination with the team”
  • Candidates should be prepared to handle both high-level design and detailed implementation of infrastructure
    — “designing, building and operating the system landscape in the NeuraGym”

How to stand out

  • Showcase your ability to document and automate infrastructure in a traceable way
    — “automate provisioning, deployment and operations with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling”
  • Emphasize your background in virtualisation environments using Proxmox or similar tools
    — “build and operate virtualisation environments based on hypervisors such as Proxmox”
  • Demonstrate your expertise in Linux systems and scripting languages like Python or Bash
    — “Confident with Linux systems, shell scripting and at least one scripting language”
  • Include examples of storage pipeline design and management of large data volumes
    — “build storage and data pipelines for high data volumes (e.g. object storage, distributed file systems)”
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What success looks like

  • scalable compute and storage infrastructure
  • reliable and performant data processing
Typical background
computer sciencesystems engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Server Infrastructure PlanningVirtualisationKubernetesDistributed ProcessingNetwork DesignStorage And Data PipelinesAutomationStability And Security

Preferred

Monitoring And Logging Stacks

Stack & domain

Server ArchitectureVirtualisationContainer OrchestrationData ProcessingKubernetesGPU SchedulingNetwork DesignStorageData PipelinesAutomationStabilitySecurityBackupRecoveryAccess ConceptsCollaborationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityAttention To DetailTeamworkRoboticsAIInfrastructure Engineering

About the role

Original posting from Neura Robotics via Ashby

YOUR MISSION & CHALLENGES

As Compute Infrastructure Engineer – NeuraGym you work at the intersection of server architecture, virtualisation, container orchestration and data processing, with a strong focus on building a scalable compute and storage infrastructure for multimodal robot data. Your core responsibility is designing, building and operating the system landscape in the NeuraGym so that recording and processing on large data volumes run reliably, performantly and reproducibly.

You play a decisive role in enabling high-quality embodied AI systems by turning individual servers, workstations and edge devices into a distributed, maintainable and extensible compute system.

  • Server infrastructure planning: You plan and design the NeuraGym server infrastructure, including sizing of compute, GPU, storage and network, rack layout, power and cooling concept, and procurement in coordination with the team.
  • Virtualisation: You build and operate virtualisation environments based on hypervisors such as Proxmox and provide development, test and production environments.
  • Kubernetes & GPU scheduling: You design and operate Kubernetes clusters (or comparable orchestration) for data preprocessing workloads, including GPU scheduling, monitoring and logging.
  • Distributed processing: You intelligently distribute compute- and data-intensive processes across multiple machines, from edge devices on the robot via local servers to central storage systems, and make sure bottlenecks are detected and removed.
  • Network design: You design the NeuraGym network infrastructure: VLANs, switching, bandwidth planning for camera and sensor streams, firewall rules and secure integration with the rest of the company IT.
  • Storage & data pipelines: You build storage and data pipelines for high data volumes (e.g. object storage, distributed file systems, streaming ingest) and ensure that data is reliably captured, stored, versioned and made available for model training.
  • Automation: You automate provisioning, deployment and operations with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling and document the system landscape in a traceable way.
  • Stability & security: You identify and resolve performance, stability and security issues in the infrastructure and develop backup, recovery and access concepts.

WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO

  • Education: Degree in computer science, systems engineering, engineering or a related field, or comparable vocational training with relevant practical experience.
  • Experience: 4+ years in system administration, infrastructure engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
  • Server infrastructure: Solid experience planning, designing and operating server infrastructure (sizing, rack build-out, hardware selection, procurement).
  • Virtualisation: Hands-on experience with hypervisors and virtualisation (e.g. Proxmox, KVM, VMware), including storage and network integration.
  • Containers: Strong knowledge of container technologies and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or comparable platforms), ideally with GPU workloads.
  • Distributed systems: Understanding of how processes, data and compute load are sensibly distributed, synchronised and monitored across multiple machines.
  • Linux & scripting: Confident with Linux systems, shell scripting and at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash).
  • IaC & CI/CD: Experience with infrastructure as code and automation (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) as well as CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitLab CI).
  • Working style: A structured, self-driven way of working and enjoyment in building infrastructure from the ground up together with an interdisciplinary team.

Nice to have: Experience with monitoring and logging stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana).

Source: Neura Robotics careers (Ashby)

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