Robotics Foundation Model Engineer: Dexterous Manipulation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Enhanced pension plan

Relocation & permit sponsorship

Central Zürich office

Open collaboration culture

Job summary

Flexion, a Zurich-based robotics company, is seeking a Research Scientist/Engineer to advance generalizable manipulation through foundation models and multimodal data. You will drive large-scale experiments, design capture systems, and turn cutting-edge research into robust real-world implementations.

The role spans dataset curation, simulation-to-real deployment, and architectures for multimodal policy evaluation, with a focus on dexterous manipulation and embodied transfer.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• Strong background in vision, vision-language, video or other multimodal models with human data.
• Experience with multimodal generative modeling, training and inference.
• Experience with reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable capture pipelines to integrate human demonstrations and wearable data into foundation model workflows.
• Build automated pipelines to reconstruct 3D objects and environments for simulation and real-world use.
• Create simulation-to-real pipelines and training for dexterous manipulation policies.
• Design and evaluate policy architectures translating multimodal data into robust control.
• Bridge human embodiment to high-DOF dexterous hands and humanoid platforms.

Skills

Robotics foundations

Multimodal data

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Dataset design

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Robotics simulators

Digital twin tooling

Job description

Flexion, a Zurich-based robotics company, is seeking a Research Scientist/Engineer to advance generalizable manipulation through foundation models and multimodal data. You will drive large-scale experiments, design capture systems, and turn cutting-edge research into robust real-world implementations.

The role spans dataset curation, simulation-to-real deployment, and architectures for multimodal policy evaluation, with a focus on dexterous manipulation and embodied transfer.