Robotics Infra & Cloud Platform Engineer

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 location

Job summary

Enact is building a next-gen robotics platform in Zürich, seeking engineers to maintain and scale our Bazel and Nix-based deployment stacks. You will design CI/CD pipelines, manage Kubernetes/Ray clusters, and scale AWS cloud resources to support training, evaluation, and production workloads.

The role emphasizes strong English communication, collaboration across engineering teams, and reliability under high-demand ML workloads in an early-stage startup.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with strong communication skills.
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and IaC tools like Terraform and Nix.
• Experience building, maintaining, and running embedded Linux.
• Experience managing scalable production environments and troubleshooting complex system issues.
• Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Bazel build infrastructure for reliable operation.
• Improve Nix-based deployment platform and dev environment for predictable ML experiments.
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines including HITL.
• Architect and scale Kubernetes and Ray clusters for training, evaluation, and CI/CD.
• Manage and scale AWS cloud infrastructure to support the robotic stack.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize system performance and reliability.
• Monitor system health and respond to incidents to ensure high availability.

Skills

English fluency

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Bazel

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Nix

Kubernetes

Ray

Linux

Python

C++

Rust

Job description

About Enact

The next defining technological breakthrough will be in the physical world. We stand at a historical inflection point: bringing general-purpose intelligence into robotics.

At Enact we rethink the entire robotic tech stack from model architectures and data pipelines, to the actuators and sensors that feed the model. Pushing beyond pure vision and language approaches, we build a proprioceptive nerve system, and the cortex that makes sense of it, to solve dexterity through whole-body force-awareness and deploy robots for thousands of tasks in industry and beyond.

We are shaping a company where brilliant and unconventional people thrive together on solving the hardest challenges of our time. We are truth seekers. We reason from first principles, test our beliefs against reality, and trust that the best ideas can come from anyone. We move fast. We care deeply about our work and colleagues and are driven by passion to change the status quo.

If this resonates, we're excited to hear from you.

In This Role You Will

• Maintain our Bazel build infrastructure to run smoothly at all times.

• Maintain and improve our Nix robot deployment platform and development environment to enable predictable ML experiments.

• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines including HITL to accelerate software delivery.

• Architect and scale Kubernetes and Ray clusters to power our training, evaluation, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure (AWS) to support our robotic software stack.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize system performance and reliability.

• Monitor system health and respond to incidents to ensure high availability.

What We're Looking For

• Strong proficiency running Bazel infrastructure.

• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Nix.

• Experience with building, maintaining and running embedded Linux.

• Experience managing scalable production environments and troubleshooting complex system issues.

• Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and monitoring tools.

• Fluent in English (spoken and written), with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience managing high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

• Proficiency in building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines for machine learning workflows.

• Proficiency in container orchestration using Kubernetes.

• Background in robotics software development or hardware-software integration.

• Familiarity with Rust, C++ and Python.
  

What we offer

• The opportunity to make a real impact working on some of the biggest challenges of our time

• A fast-paced learning environment alongside an outstanding, driven team

• Ownership from day one, with the ability to iterate quickly and see your impact firsthand in an early-stage startup

• Visa sponsorship & relocation benefits to hire the best in the world

• A world-class in-person setup in central Zürich, with excellent prototyping, robotics, and technical infrastructure for hands-on builders

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation