Senior AI Research Engineer, Visual Perception - Remote Eligible

Senior AI Research Engineer, Visual Perception

ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 200 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.

The Opportunity

You'll join our Solutions team, where we push the limits of autonomous robotic inspection intelligence. You'll build cutting-edge AI, machine-learning, and sensing technologies, from early exploration to tackle the toughest real-world deployment challenges. Collaborating with engineers and partners, you'll assess new technologies, design proof-of-concept experiments, build research prototypes, and swiftly transfer promising ideas to our product. Your work will shape our technology roadmap, guiding long-term strategy and ensuring every solution is robust, reliable, and ready for impact. If you thrive on discovery, hands-on experimentation, and know your research can redefine robotics and industrial inspections, this role lets you make a real difference—for our customers and the robotics community.

Market & Technology

ANYbotics transforms industrial plants in the (renewable) energy, process, and utility sector by introducing robotics to a wide range of novel applications that so far were beyond reach. Our mobile robot ANYmal uses legs for extreme mobility in complex environments, camera- and LIDAR-based sensing for full autonomy and obstacle avoidance, to perform jobs and deliver high-quality, consistent inspection results. We develop numerous customized hardware systems, including the entire robotic platform, actuators, sensors, inspection payloads, charging systems, and all related ANYbotics electrical hardware.

About Us

ANYbotics is a leading robotics company specializing in advanced autonomous systems. With a successful Series B financing round recently closed, we are poised for rapid growth and international expansion. Our mission is to revolutionize the robotics industry through cutting-edge technology and innovation. As we embark on this exciting journey, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced person to join our team and help us shape the future of autonomous robotic inspections.

Your Contributions

• Exploring, developing, and implementing cutting-edge technological advancements in multi modal (vision, audio, thermal, gas,...) machine learning.
• Identifying emerging technologies, conducting in-depth evaluations, and translating these findings into innovative products.
• Developing prototypes and conducting pilot projects to test new technologies in controlled environments.
• Driving collaborations with tech startups, research institutions, and industry leaders to leverage external expertise and accelerate innovation.
• Connecting with the engineering teams for the adoption and integration of new technologies into existing systems and processes, ensuring a seamless transition.

Your Profile

• A PhD in Machine Learning (or a related technical field) OR 4+ years of relevant industrial hands-on experience.
• Excellent at designing and deploying state-of-the-art computer vision and AI perception models including multi-modal approaches.
• Excellent expertise in modern deep learning techniques, including transformer-based architectures, large Vision-language models (VLMs), Video generative models and diffusion algorithms or Vision Language Action models (VLAs) with hands-on experience training and fine-tuning such systems for scene understanding applications.
• Strong track record of implementing and evaluating advanced AI algorithms for perception and scene understanding in real-world scenarios.
• Strong practical experience across the MLOps pipeline—from data collection and curation to training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Strong in fast prototyping, concept validation, and rapid iteration—you build to learn and use experimentation as a core development tool.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with the ability to write clean, and efficient code.
• Experienced in leading R&D initiatives or small cross-functional teams, with a focus on transferring promising ideas into impactful products.
• Strong in self-coordination and project ownership, able to structure your work independently, align with strategic goals, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively share knowledge and insights.

Bonus Points

• Experience with large scale machine learning compute systems.
• Demonstrated coding, debugging, and engineering skills in writing modern C++.
• Good familiarity with GPU programming, performance benchmarking and optimization, to deploy on edge or cloud systems

We offer you a very exciting and dynamic work environment, the opportunity to become part of a fast-growing company and an ambitious team that is on a mission to change the industrial inspection market, a chance to leverage your experience and bring in your own ideas, a fair market salary, an attractive employee stock ownership plan, and a job in the city of Zurich.