Agentic AI Engineer for Scientific Discovery

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ETH AI Center at ETH Zurich invites an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate research and collaborate with ETH labs to co-develop agentic pipelines for simulations, data curation, and model evaluation.

This role emphasizes end-to-end deployment, collaboration with researchers and external partners, and contributing to teaching and open-source templates at the intersection of AI and science.

Qualifikationen

• PhD in computer science or computational discipline preferred; a master's degree with strong relevant experience is welcome.
• End-to-end experience building agentic or LLM-based systems (1–3 years typical).
• Strong software and systems engineering: services, APIs, data pipelines, containers, CI/CD.
• Hands-on AI/ML tooling (LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, PyTorch, HuggingFace) and with model optimization and efficient inference.
• Experience with GPU computing and high-performance or distributed computing environments.
• Exposure to planning, scheduling, workflow engines, or reasoning systems, and to scientific computing workflows.
• An effective communicator bridging researchers and engineers.
• Fluency in English.

Aufgaben

• Partner with research labs across ETH to identify high-impact use cases for agentic AI and co-develop novel pipelines and tools.
• Build planning and orchestration components that turn research goals into executable workflows under constraints such as cost, latency, and fidelity.
• Make the system inspectable: traceable runs, reproducible results, and interfaces for researchers to steer the work.
• Support research teams with data preparation and curation, and help them optimize, specialize, and deploy models.
• Contribute to evaluation and benchmarking of AI systems on scientific tasks.
• Develop and open-source reusable recipes, reference architectures, and templates.
• Stay at the frontier of agentic AI and advise research teams.
• Contribute to teaching and student projects.

Jobbeschreibung

ETH AI Center at ETH Zurich invites an AI for Science Engineer to build frontier AI systems that accelerate research and collaborate with ETH labs to co-develop agentic pipelines for simulations, data curation, and model evaluation.

This role emphasizes end-to-end deployment, collaboration with researchers and external partners, and contributing to teaching and open-source templates at the intersection of AI and science.