Applied Scientist, Robotic Agents & Autonomy

RAI Institute; Zürich; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RAI Institute is seeking highly motivated Master's and PhD graduates to join our team full-time in an invigorating environment where researchers and engineers are building the future of robotics and learning-based systems.

You will focus on developing and scaling agentic infrastructure for robot autonomy, working with engineers and researchers to integrate with powerful simulations and on-robot deployments, and ensuring production-grade reliability in Linux environments.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in robotics, computer science, computational science & engineering or related field.
• Proven software engineering experience (internships, open-source contributions, or project work).
• AI/ML foundations: PyTorch and understanding of modern AI architectures (LLMs, VLMs, RL).

Responsibilities

• Build, extend, and maintain an agentic framework for on-robot workflows across real-world deployments.
• Create and manage internal benchmarks for evaluating agentic workflows in diverse robotic tasks.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to integrate with simulation tools and on-robot deployments.
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize performance in resource-constrained Linux environments for production reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

PyTorch

AI architectures

Education

Master's or PhD in Robotics/CS/Computational Science & Engineering

Tools

ROS2

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Job description

RAI Institute is seeking highly motivated Master's and PhD graduates to join our team full-time in an invigorating environment where researchers and engineers are building the future of robotics and learning-based systems.

You will focus on developing and scaling agentic infrastructure for robot autonomy, working with engineers and researchers to integrate with powerful simulations and on-robot deployments, and ensuring production-grade reliability in Linux environments.