Robotics Staff Engineer, End-to-End Robot Stack

Binabik; Winterthur; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Hardware access

Career development

Public exposure

Team Collaboration

Pension plan & insurance

Job summary

Binabik AI, a ZHAW spin-off focusing on humanoid robotics for factory automation, seeks a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to work across the robot stack from hardware interfaces to deployment at customer sites.

You will contribute to runtime, motion planning, skill execution, and evaluation, with hands-on time in the lab on G2 and R1 Pro and deployments at customers' shops in Switzerland and neighboring regions.

Qualifications

• Degree in robotics, CS, mechatronics, electrical or mechanical engineering or related field.
• 2+ years building software for real robots or physical systems in industry or research.
• Strong Python skills; C++ is a plus.
• Experience with ROS 2 and Linux.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites, mostly in Switzerland and neighboring countries.

Responsibilities

• Develop on-robot runtime and hardware abstraction layer, ROS 2 communication, real-time interfaces to arms, grippers, and mobile base.
• Work on kinematics, planning, and control for arms and mobile base; enable precise grasping and placement.
• Calibrate and integrate perception, coordinate frames and base/arm motion for repeatable positioning.
• Assemble and tune skills, integrate learned policies, manage task sequencing, and verify outcomes with LLMs/VLMs.
• Define benchmarks, run simulations and deploy on customer sites, translating learnings into product improvements.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS 2

Linux

Rigid-body kinematics

Debugging real hardware

Travel to customer sites

Education

Engineering degree (robotics, CS, mechatronics, electrical or mechanical)

Tools

ROS 2

Linux

Job description

Binabik AI, a ZHAW spin-off focusing on humanoid robotics for factory automation, seeks a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to work across the robot stack from hardware interfaces to deployment at customer sites.

You will contribute to runtime, motion planning, skill execution, and evaluation, with hands-on time in the lab on G2 and R1 Pro and deployments at customers' shops in Switzerland and neighboring regions.