Agentic AI Engineer for Scientific Discovery

ETH Zürich; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ETH Zürich seeks an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate research across ETH labs. You will co-develop agentic pipelines, curate data, evaluate models, and align workflows with researchers to expand capability and scalability.

The role calls for hands-on experience with AI tooling and distributed computing, and strong collaboration with external partners to deliver practical, impactful solutions at ETH Zurich in Zürich.

Qualifications

• PhD in computer science or a computational discipline; master's with strong relevant experience also welcome.
• 1–3 years of experience building and deploying agentic or LLM-based systems end-to-end.
• Strong software and systems engineering skills: services, APIs, data pipelines, containers, CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML tooling (LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, PyTorch, HuggingFace) and with model optimization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with research labs to identify use cases for agentic AI and co-develop pipelines and tools.
• Build planning and orchestration components turning research goals into executable workflows.
• Make systems traceable with reproducible runs and understandable interfaces for researchers.

Skills

English fluency

Communication skills

Software engineering

Data pipelines

Containerization

CI/CD

Education

PhD in CS or computational discipline

Master's with strong relevant experience

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

LLM APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ETH Zürich seeks an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate research across ETH labs. You will co-develop agentic pipelines, curate data, evaluate models, and align workflows with researchers to expand capability and scalability.

The role calls for hands-on experience with AI tooling and distributed computing, and strong collaboration with external partners to deliver practical, impactful solutions at ETH Zurich in Zürich.