Senior Engineering Project Manager

About the role

Idealworks is seeking a Senior Engineering Project Manager to lead complex industrial automation projects from concept to production. You will act as the connective layer between R&D, hardware, and software teams, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, partners, and customers. The role involves managing project lifecycles, technical risks, and cross-functional dependencies in the fields of mobile robotics, humanoid platforms, and physical AI.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex engineering projects across the full lifecycle including scoping, planning, execution, integration, testing, and handover.
• Define and manage project plans, milestones, budgets, and resourcing while monitoring schedule, cost, and quality.
• Identify technical, schedule, and commercial risks early and drive mitigation and contingency planning.
• Act as the connective layer between product management, engineering, R&D, and operations to ensure dependencies are sequenced correctly.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, including shareholders, partners, and customers, and lead steering committee meetings.
• Track and report on project and portfolio KPIs to leadership and shareholders.

Required skills

• Project Management
• Robotics
• Hardware/Software Integration
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Budgeting

Nice to have

• German language

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, computer science, software development, mechatronics, robotics, or a related technical field

Benefits

• 30 vacation days
• Annual personal development budget
• Company pension scheme
• Team events

About the Company

Idealworks builds industrial automation as a coordinated system, including mobile robots, orchestration software, and simulation. Founded within BMW Group and integrated into Agile Robots SE, the company has grown from a Munich-based robotics team into a global player in physical AI and humanoid robotics.