AI Research Engineer (Human Data)

Location: Zürich, Switzerland; central Zürich office with robotics testing facilities. A San Francisco office is also mentioned.

Company

hirify.global develops the intelligence layer for humanoid robots, focusing on robot reinforcement learning and real-world humanoid deployment.

What you will do

• Develop scalable pipelines integrating human video demonstrations, wearable capture systems, and unconstrained manipulation data into foundation model and reinforcement learning workflows.
• Build automated pipelines for reconstructing manipulated 3D objects and environments and importing digital twins into simulation.
• Create simulation environments and dexterous manipulation policies using reinforcement learning, tactile feedback, and force feedback.
• Design, train, and evaluate robot foundation models that translate multimodal sensor streams into robust control.
• Develop algorithms that transfer human demonstrations and embodiment to high-DOF dexterous hands and humanoid platforms.

Requirements

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

Nice to have

• Experience with human action capture methodologies, dataset design, and incorporating captured data into VLA, WAM, or reinforcement learning training.
• Experience with simulators, real-world robots, dexterous manipulation, and multimodal sensing such as tactile and force sensing.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Enhanced pension plan and holiday and paid leave benefits.
• Relocation and permit sponsorship.
• Central Zürich office with advanced robotics testing facilities and infrastructure.
• Collaborative, action-oriented culture with regular community events.
• San Francisco benefits include 401(k) contributions, health, dental, and vision coverage, open PTO, and paid company holidays.