Senior AI Robotics Engineer - VLA & Autonomy

RIVR Technologies AG; Zürich; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

RIVR Technologies AG is seeking an expert in Vision-Language-Action models to lead multi-modal robotics research in Zürich. You will develop VLA models, imitation learning and transformer-based architectures to advance autonomous delivery robots in real-world environments.

You will supervise and mentor a team of software engineers, collaborate with RL teams, and help translate research into deployed edge solutions on hardware like Nvidia Jetson Thor.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years industry or research experience; PhD experience applicable.
• Strong deep learning fundamentals including supervised/self-supervised learning, Transformer-based architectures, policy optimization algorithms, imitation learning, and generative AI techniques (including Diffusion Models).
• 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, navigation.
• Experience with deploying artificial neural networks on hardware platforms.
• Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks in Python (Pytorch).
• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as Engineering, Robotics, or Machine Learning.

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 to meet the demands of complex real-world autonomy and navigation tasks, with a focus on spatial reasoning and generalization.
• Streamline the data collection and training workflow to efficiently expand model capabilities with new tasks and data sources.
• Collaborate with the reinforcement learning team to innovate methods that leverage 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 decision-making.
• Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and best practices to streamline knowledge sharing.

Skills

Vision-Language-Action models

Imitation learning

Transformer-based architectures

Self-supervised learning

Generative AI

Python (PyTorch)

Edge deployment / embedded systems

Team leadership

Education

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

PhD preferred

Tools

PyTorch

C++

Job description

RIVR Technologies AG is seeking an expert in Vision-Language-Action models to lead multi-modal robotics research in Zürich. You will develop VLA models, imitation learning and transformer-based architectures to advance autonomous delivery robots in real-world environments.

You will supervise and mentor a team of software engineers, collaborate with RL teams, and help translate research into deployed edge solutions on hardware like Nvidia Jetson Thor.