Senior AI Engineer, Vision-Language-Action for Robotics

Amazon; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RIVR Technologies AG in Switzerland is seeking a senior AI/Robotics engineer to develop Vision-Language-Action models and generalist robot transformers, advancing autonomous doorstep delivery.

You will prototype algorithms, test on real-world data, collaborate with RL teams, and mentor engineers while shaping the roadmap for on-edge deployment on Nvidia Jetson hardware.

Strong background in deep learning, robotics, and production-grade Python (PyTorch) is required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Robotics, or Machine Learning.
• At least three years of industry or research experience; PhD is applicable.
• Strong deep learning fundamentals including supervised/self-supervised learning, Transformer-based architectures, policy optimization, imitation learning, and generative AI techniques.
• Proven experience in developing Vision-Language-Action models or large-scale generalist robot models (e.g., RT-2, Octo).
• Strong background in robotics including autonomy and navigation.
• Experience deploying artificial neural networks on hardware.
• Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks in Python (PyTorch).

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, generalist robot transformers, and imitation learning algorithms to enable robots to autonomously execute complex tasks.
• Design, test, and refine your algorithms for real-world autonomy and navigation tasks, with a focus on spatial reasoning and generalization.
• Streamline the data collection and training workflow to expand model capabilities with new tasks and data sources.
• Collaborate with the reinforcement learning team to innovate methods using both simulated and real-world data.
• Optimize and distill networks for real-time deployment on the edge (e.g. Nvidia Jetson Thor).
• Build, lead and mentor an exceptional team of software engineers.
• Provide expert guidance to product managers and executives for strategic decisions.
• Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and best practices to streamline knowledge sharing.

Skills

Vision-Language-Action models

Imitation learning

Transformer architectures

Python (PyTorch)

Edge deployment

Education

Master’s degree or higher in Engineering/Robotics/ML

Tools

PyTorch

NVIDIA Jetson

RT-2/Octo robot models

Job description

RIVR Technologies AG in Switzerland is seeking a senior AI/Robotics engineer to develop Vision-Language-Action models and generalist robot transformers, advancing autonomous doorstep delivery.

You will prototype algorithms, test on real-world data, collaborate with RL teams, and mentor engineers while shaping the roadmap for on-edge deployment on Nvidia Jetson hardware.

Strong background in deep learning, robotics, and production-grade Python (PyTorch) is required.