Field Robotics Deployment Engineer - Fleet & Hardware

Robotics and AI Institute; Zürich; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics and AI Institute in Zurich is seeking a Field Deployment Engineer to bridge robotics hardware and software teams. You will own hardware interfaces, bring-up, fleet deployment tooling and data capture, ensuring consistent robot behavior across experiments.

In this onsite role, you collaborate with researchers and engineers, work with ROS2, C++, Python, and Linux, and contribute to open-source robotics software while advancing edge devices like NVIDIA Jetson.

Qualifications

• MSc in robotics, computer science, electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience with real robots.
• Working experience with ROS2.
• Strong C++ and Python.
• Strong Linux skills.
• System-level thinking: you reason about how software, hardware and algorithms interact, and you can trace a failure across layers.
• Experience with edge devices such as the NVIDIA Jetson family.
• Familiarity with custom electronics, communication protocols and real-time systems.
• A collaborative mindset, working closely with researchers and engineers.
• Contributions to open-source robotics software.
• Note: Candidates are not expected to meet every qualification in the above list. If you do not have all of these qualifications you are still encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain hardware interfaces for robots, sensors and actuators.
• Integrate custom sensor payloads and hardware, from first power-on to reliable daily use.
• Bring up, debug and maintain real robots across the fleet.
• Ensure robot configuration and usage is standardized across the robots in our prototype fleet.
• Own and improve the deployment tools for the robots we use every day.
• Build tools to operate and debug robots.
• Identify recurring hardware and software problems and work with other teams to implement technical or process solutions.
• Be the first to play with new hardware to stay on top of new sensing, compute and actuation technologies

Skills

C++

Python

ROS2

Real robots

Linux

System-level thinking

NVIDIA Jetson

Edge devices

Open-source robotics

Collaboration

Education

MSc in robotics / CS / EE / ME or equivalent practical experience

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

Job description

Robotics and AI Institute in Zurich is seeking a Field Deployment Engineer to bridge robotics hardware and software teams. You will own hardware interfaces, bring-up, fleet deployment tooling and data capture, ensuring consistent robot behavior across experiments.

In this onsite role, you collaborate with researchers and engineers, work with ROS2, C++, Python, and Linux, and contribute to open-source robotics software while advancing edge devices like NVIDIA Jetson.