Senior Research Engineer for RL-based Robot Navigation & Control

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 Advanced Technology team, where we push the limits of robot autonomy and intelligence. You’ll evaluate cutting-edge AI, planning, and control technologies—from novel environment perception to advanced planning—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 teams. 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, 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 to join our team and help us shape the future of robotics.

• Exploring, developing, and implementing cutting-edge technological advancements in robotics, machine learning, planning and control
• 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

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience in a research or advanced development setting
• Excellent expertise in modern deep reinforcement learning techniques and architectures, with hands-on experience in training and fine-tuning such systems
• Excellent at designing and deploying state-of-the-art control and planning algorithms for real-world robotics or autonomous systems
• Strong practical experience across the MLOps pipeline—from data collection and curation to training, fine-tuning, and GPU-based deployment in embedded or edge systems
• Strong in fast prototyping, concept validation, and rapid iteration—you build to learn and use experimentation as a core development tool
• Strong in self-coordination and project ownership, able to structure your work independently, align with strategic goals, and deliver meaningful outcomes
• Good programming skills in C and Python, with the ability to write clean, and efficient code 
• Familiarity with GPU programming, with the desire to deepen knowledge and performance tuning where needed
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively share knowledge and insights

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.