Robotics Engineer: Vision & Touch Manipulation

Startupvalleys; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of core product

Access to state-of-the-art sensors and

Small technical team in Zurich

Mentorship from experienced robotics,\

Job summary

Bota Systems AG in Zurich, Switzerland is seeking a Robotics Engineer to advance learning-based manipulation. You will train policies using vision and force data, build data-collection pipelines on real hardware, and integrate physics-enabled simulations for training and evaluation.

You will collaborate with hardware and embedded teams to bring models from experiments to working robots, contributing to a compact, highly technical team near Zürich.

Qualifications

• A degree in Robotics, CS, EE, or related field.
• Hands-on experience in training and fine-tuning ML models for robotics.
• Strong Python skills and working knowledge of C++.
• Experience with ROS 2 and with real robot hardware.

Responsibilities

• Train, fine-tune, and deploy learning-based manipulation policies using vision/force inputs.
• Build data-collection pipelines on real hardware (kinesthetic teaching, teleoperation, multi-modal recording).
• Integrate force-aware, physics-based simulation for training and evaluation.
• Design software architecture connecting sensors, robots, and learning stack for reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with hardware and embedded engineers to deploy models on real robots.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS 2

Data pipelines

Cross-disciplinary

Education

Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Real robot hardware

ROS 2 tooling

Job description

Bota Systems AG in Zurich, Switzerland is seeking a Robotics Engineer to advance learning-based manipulation. You will train policies using vision and force data, build data-collection pipelines on real hardware, and integrate physics-enabled simulations for training and evaluation.

You will collaborate with hardware and embedded teams to bring models from experiments to working robots, contributing to a compact, highly technical team near Zürich.