Hands-on Field Robotics Deployment Engineer

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

Job summary

RAI Institute in Zurich is seeking a Field Deployment Engineer to ensure reliable robot operation for research and engineering teams. You will own hardware interfaces, bring-up, fleet deployment tooling and data capture, ensuring consistent robot behavior and repeatable experiments.

This engineering role focuses on software development, hardware integration and fleet deployment, requiring hands-on work with robots, ROS2, C++, Python and Linux, in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• MSc in robotics, CS, electrical or mechanical eng, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with real robots.
• Working experience with ROS2.
• Strong C++ and Python.
• Strong Linux skills.
• System-level thinking across software, hardware and algorithms.
• Contributions to open-source robotics software.
• Collaborative mindset, working with researchers and engineers.

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 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 solutions.
• Be the first to play with new hardware to stay on top of new sensing, compute and actuation technologies.

Skills

ROS2

C++

Python

Linux

Edge devices

Hardware interfaces

Deployment tooling

Debugging

Open-source contributions

Collaboration

Education

MSc in robotics, CS, electrical or mechanical eng, or equivalent

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

Real-time systems

Job description

RAI Institute in Zurich is seeking a Field Deployment Engineer to ensure reliable robot operation for research and engineering teams. You will own hardware interfaces, bring-up, fleet deployment tooling and data capture, ensuring consistent robot behavior and repeatable experiments.

This engineering role focuses on software development, hardware integration and fleet deployment, requiring hands-on work with robots, ROS2, C++, Python and Linux, in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.