Agentic AI Engineer for Scientific Discovery

ETH Zürich; Zürich; Sur place; CHF 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Zurich office location

Research access and collaboration

Résumé du poste

ETH Zürich’s AI Center is seeking an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate researchers across ETH. You will partner with labs to co-develop agentic pipelines that orchestrate simulations, curate data, evaluate models, and chain domain-specific tools.

This role emphasizes shipping AI solutions beyond infrastructure, collaborating with external partners, and contributing to teaching and student projects in Zurich.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS or related field preferred; strong research engagement considered.
• 1–3 years of experience building end-to-end agentic/LLM-based systems (exceptional grads welcome).
• Strong software engineering skills: services, APIs, data pipelines, containers, CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML tooling (LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, PyTorch, HuggingFace).
• Experience with GPU computing and distributed computing environments.
• Exposure to planning, scheduling, workflow engines, or scientific computing workflows is a plus; open-source contributions welcomed.
• Excellent communicator bridging researchers and engineers; English fluency required.

Responsabilités

• Partner with ETH labs to identify high-impact use cases for agentic AI and co-develop pipelines and tools.
• Build planning and orchestration components turning goals into constrained workflows.
• Make systems traceable with reproducible runs and clear interfaces for researchers.
• Support data preparation, model fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, and efficient inference.
• Contribute to evaluation/benchmarking of AI systems on scientific tasks.
• Develop reusable recipes, architectures, and templates for open-source adoption.
• Stay at the frontier of agentic AI and evaluate new frameworks; prototype patterns.
• Contribute to teaching and student projects.

Connaissances

Agentic AI

LLM tooling

Software engineering

GPU computing

Planning & scheduling

Communication

English fluency

Formation

PhD in computer science or related field

Master’s degree with strong experience

Outils

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

RAG pipelines

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Description du poste

ETH Zürich’s AI Center is seeking an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate researchers across ETH. You will partner with labs to co-develop agentic pipelines that orchestrate simulations, curate data, evaluate models, and chain domain-specific tools.

This role emphasizes shipping AI solutions beyond infrastructure, collaborating with external partners, and contributing to teaching and student projects in Zurich.