Member of Technical Staff - Embodied AI Researcher (Zurich)

About the role

A rapidly growing embodied AI company is looking for a world-class robotics professional to join its R&D hub in the Zurich area. You will help develop Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that let robots understand and interact with the world, working at the intersection of large-scale foundation models and real-world robotic execution.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and scale VLA models and foundation architectures for robotic manipulation and navigation
• Develop strategies for multi-modal data collection, synthetic data generation and efficient fine-tuning of large-scale models
• Optimize model inference for real-time robotic applications without compromising reasoning capabilities
• Publish high-impact papers at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA and CoRL
• Work closely with the Core Robotics and Hardware teams to integrate AI models into physical platforms

Required profile

• PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics or a related field, with a focus on Deep Learning and Computer Vision
• Significant publications and citations at major conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ICRA, IROS or CoRL
• Experience working in leading AI research environments
• Strong understanding of Vision-Language models applied to action/control loops in robotics

Required skills

• Deep expertise in PyTorch or JAX
• Experience with Transformers, Diffusion Models and Large Language Models

What we offer

• Free meals at the workplace
• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home when needed
• Direct collaboration with founders and world-leading AI experts
• Access to large-scale compute clusters and proprietary robotic datasets
• Competitive compensation and a relocation package for the Zurich area