Jobs at Laelaps AI

Build and deploy real-time robot state estimation systems using sensor fusion across IMUs, cameras, LiDAR, GNSS, and odometry. Improve localization and odometry in challenging environments, integrate estimates with perception, planning, and control, investigate failures using logs and simulations, and develop repeatable evaluation workflows. Collaborate with autonomy and field engineers to improve reliable performance across robot platforms.

Train and evaluate reinforcement learning policies for locomotion and low-level actuator control in simulation and on physical legged robots. Apply sim-to-real techniques, domain randomization, reward design, and robustness methods across varied terrain, weather, and sensor conditions. Build reproducible experiment and evaluation workflows, transfer policies between robot embodiments, and use strong software engineering practices including version control and experiment tracking.

Develop and deploy dependable navigation and path-planning systems for ground mobile robots operating at real customer sites. Responsibilities include sensor integration, terrain and traversability estimation, obstacle avoidance, behavior prediction, planning under localization uncertainty, field debugging, simulation, and validation on physical robots across varied weather and environments. Collaborate with autonomy, application, backend, and field engineers to improve reliability and deliver new capabilities.

The Founder's Associate works directly with the founding team across go-to-market, operations, market research, fundraising support, and growth initiatives. Responsibilities include defining target customers, building prospect lists, running outreach, developing AI agent systems, monitoring tenders and grants, creating customer-facing materials, modeling growth and funnels, and maintaining CRM infrastructure. The role requires high autonomy, commercial judgment, technical affinity, and the ability to manage ambiguous, high-impact projects in a Zurich-based startup.

Own full-cycle enterprise B2B and public-sector sales as the first dedicated sales hire. Source pipeline, run discovery and demos, scope pilots, negotiate, close six-figure deals, maintain CRM hygiene, forecast accurately, and build the sales playbook. Partner with the CEO on strategy, pricing, positioning, and early deals, then coach and lead the future sales team. The role focuses on selling technical security and robotics solutions to enterprise, industrial, government, and defense customers.

Build and operate cloud and edge infrastructure connecting robot fleets to operator systems. Responsibilities include cloud networking and IAM, secure VPN and PKI connectivity, CI/CD, Kubernetes and K3s orchestration, infrastructure as code, fleet management, observability, developer tooling, and security hardening. The role supports cloud, on-premises, and potentially air-gapped deployments, with ownership of durable infrastructure foundations and developer experience.

Build and deploy production computer vision and machine learning systems for multi-camera robotics and surveillance. Responsibilities include cross-camera re-identification, object detection, multi-object tracking, vision-language model integration, real-time video streaming, edge optimization on Jetson hardware, data pipelines, model evaluation, and collaboration with robotics and software teams.

Owns customer deployments of an on-premise robotics and AI security platform, including site surveys, infrastructure planning, installation, integrations, commissioning, system tuning, validation, and operator handover. The role combines software engineering, edge infrastructure, networking, hardware, computer vision, robotics, customer engagement, troubleshooting, training, and deployment automation. Approximately half the time is spent at customer sites across Switzerland and Europe, with the remainder focused on improving tooling and feeding field insights into product development.

Lead and build Laelaps AI’s hardware function from the ground up. Define hardware strategy across ground, aerial, and stationary platforms; design and integrate mechanical, electrical, sensing, power, compute, and actuation systems; manage ruggedization, manufacturing, supply chain, reliability, and field testing; and hire the future hardware team. The role requires shipping robotic systems into real-world environments and taking products from prototype through DVT, PVT, and production.