Research Scientist (Zurich Location)

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Robotics and AI Institute is hiring Research Scientists for our Zurich location to push the boundaries of robot control, perception, autonomy and navigation, LLM/VLM, and hardware design through hands-on research. You will develop and prototype new ideas, contribute to publications at leading conferences, and translate research into real world robotic systems using model-based and data-driven approaches, collaborating with engineers to bring prototypes to life. Requirements include a robotics relevant BS/MS/PhD, 3+ years of R&D, strong RL/IL, perception, planning and state estimation skills, solid programming ability, and experience with locomotion and grasping. Bonus goes to a proven publication record in ML or robotics. Apply with a focused CV, sample projects, and a concise research statement.

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Our MissionOur mission is to solve the most important and fundamental challenges in AI and Robotics to enable future generations of intelligent machines that will help us all live better lives.
Research Scientists will have proven hands-on research experience with a focus on one or more of these key areas: Robot Control (Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning), Perception, Autonomy and Navigation, LLM/VLM, Hardware Design.  If you have a passion for developing technology for robots and use it to advance their capabilities and usefulness, you will want to join us!  

Responsibilities

• Research focused on advancing robotic systems by developing exciting new ideas and providing solutions to complex problems
• Collaborate on publications to be submitted at worldwide conferences
• Apply your and others’ research to real-world problems and state-of-the-art robots
• System Design using model-based and data-driven techniques
• Creatively apply modern learning algorithms to robotics
• Use your strong development skills to develop algorithms and improve systems
• Working with fellow researchers and engineers to develop prototypes

Requirements

• BS, MS or PhD in a robotics-relevant field
• 3+ years of experience in research and development
• Good grasp of a broad set of techniques related to RL/IL control, state and world estimation, perception, planning/navigation, LLM/VLM
• Strong development skills with at least one programming language
• Experience with systems that have complex physical interaction (locomotion & grasping)

Bonus

• Proven track record of publications in top-tier conferences and journals in Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, NIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJRR, RSS, SciRo, CORL etc.)

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