We are looking for an experienced Engineer/Scientist to join a cutting-edge robotics team in Zurich, focused on humanoid manipulation through state-of-the-art AI. You will contribute to developing and deploying learning-based controllers to enable robots to interact intelligently, reliably, and flexibly with complex environments.
This role is deeply hands-on with real robot hardware, leveraging your expertise across vision-language-action (VLA) models, diffusion models, reinforcement learning, and dexterous manipulation .

What we’re looking for:

• PhD or Master's in Robotics, AI, or related fields
• Strong expertise in learning-based dexterous manipulation (multi-fingered grasping, task-oriented manipulation)
• Practical experience with running real-time controllers on robotic hardware
• Deep knowledge of diffusion models, transformers, CVAEs, normalizing flows
• Experience working with ROS, PyTorch, and Python
• Familiarity with vision-language models (VLA/VLMs/LLMs) for robotic planning or failure detection
• Bonus: experience with synthetic data generation, simulation environments, teleoperation systems

Why this role?

• Join a high-calibre team (ex-ETH / ex-NVIDIA founders) backed by significant investment (Seed + Series A secured)
• Work at the intersection of simulation, reinforcement learning, and robotics hardware
• Contribute to next-generation humanoid robots without reliance on traditional imitation learning paradigms
• Significant stock offering.

If you’re passionate about building more intelligent robots through cutting-edge AI and want to work in a fast-moving, well-resourced environment, we’d love to hear from you.