AI Research Scientist (Robot Learning) (AI)

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage deep tech robotics and AI startup developing dexterous robotic hands and AI-driven automation for tedious manual labor.

What you will do

• Drive research and implementation of large-scale, multi-task foundation AI models for robotics.
• Iterate on model architectures and parameters, then specialize models through fine-tuning and post-training.
• Implement and manage the data flywheel, including task specification, data collection, model training, and real-world evaluation.
• Write clean, maintainable Python code with deep learning frameworks.
• Work with Robotics and Hardware teams to support efficient and stable deployment on real-world robots.
• Co-lead AI engineering and science in close collaboration with the founders and early team.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent PhD-level industry experience.
• At least 3 years of experience training generative models.
• At least 4 years of experience developing and maintaining Python code.
• Strong empirical research abilities and intuition.
• Project management or supervision experience.
• Fluent English speaker required.

Nice to have

• Published deep learning or robot learning research at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, or ICLR.
• Experience training large-scale foundation models with distributed multi-GPU setups.
• Robotics and ROS2 experience.
• Experience with reinforcement learning fine-tuning of generative models.
• Open-source software development experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive yearly base salary and a strong stock option package.
• Direct collaboration with founders from the early stages of the company.
• Flat hierarchies and the opportunity to shape the robotics and AI platform.
• Surprise team trips, free gym and sports subscription, and joint breakfasts and dinners.
• Inclusive environment with diverse perspectives and experiences.