1 year ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop VLA models, generalist robot Transformers, and imitation-learning algorithms such as diffusion policies for complex robotic tasks.
- Design, test, and refine algorithms for real-world autonomy, navigation, spatial reasoning, and generalization.
- Streamline data collection and model-training workflows for new tasks and data sources.
- Collaborate with the reinforcement learning team using simulated and real-world data.
- Optimize and distill neural networks for real-time edge deployment, including on Nvidia Jetson Thor.
- Build, lead, and mentor a software engineering team.
- Advise product managers and executives on technical and strategic decisions.
- Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- At least three years of industry or research experience, with applicable PhD experience.
- Strong knowledge of supervised learning, self-supervised learning, Transformer architectures, policy optimization, imitation learning, generative AI, and diffusion models.
- Proven experience developing VLA models or large-scale generalist robot models such as RT-2 or Octo.
- Strong robotics experience, particularly in autonomy and navigation.
- Experience deploying artificial neural networks on hardware platforms.
- Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks using Python and PyTorch.
- Preferred: PhD or equivalent research experience in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline.
- Preferred: publications at top-tier conferences.
- Preferred: experience managing a software team.
- Preferred: ability to write production-level modern C++.
Benefits
- The role requires in-person work at the company's office locations.
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About RIVR
RIVR builds wheeled‑legged robots and autonomy software that handle stairs, doors, and uneven terrain to complete doorstep package and food delivery. The ETH Zurich spin‑off, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Zurich, was acquired by Amazon in March 2026. Its system combines custom hardware, onboard perception and planning, and cloud coordination to automate last‑mile logistics for e‑commerce and delivery operators.