Research Scientist — Robotic Foundation Models (Pre-Training)

Enact Intelligence; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation benefits

Equity participation

Central Zürich office

Job summary

Enact Intelligence in Zürich is building the base intelligence layer for robotics by training large-scale force-aware foundation models to unlock dexterous manipulation. We work across real-world and simulated settings to push AI-driven robotics beyond current limits.

You will own end-to-end experiments—from data specification through training to real-robot evaluation— and contribute to datamixes, robustness, and sample-efficient training, in a fast-paced startup with visa sponsorship and equity

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in ML, robotics or related fields.
• Strong foundations in probability and statistics and experimental design.
• Experience with large-scale predictive or generative models and robust evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute large-scale pretraining runs for robot foundation models.
• Own experiments end-to-end from data specification to real-robot evaluation.
• Build datamixes and evaluation sets for novel tasks in real-world and simulated settings.
• Research methods to improve sample efficiency and robustness for deployment.

Skills

Large-scale models

ML fundamentals

PhD

PyTorch

JAX

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Enact Intelligence in Zürich is building the base intelligence layer for robotics by training large-scale force-aware foundation models to unlock dexterous manipulation. We work across real-world and simulated settings to push AI-driven robotics beyond current limits.

You will own end-to-end experiments—from data specification through training to real-robot evaluation— and contribute to datamixes, robustness, and sample-efficient training, in a fast-paced startup with visa sponsorship and equity