The Role
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 190 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.
The Opportunity
As an AI Computer vision - Perception engineer you will play a crucial role in making autonomous robots a reality. You will be responsible for developing, integrating, and optimizing cutting-edge perception algorithms that empower our robotic platforms to perform complex tasks autonomously and reliably. Your expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and AI-driven perception will play a critical role in enhancing robot autonomy, robustness, and adaptability, directly impacting the value we deliver to our customers. Join a fast-paced, goal-driven team of world-class experts in perception. Your work and vision will have a Real Impact on advancing the state of the art in robotics and industrial inspection.
Market & Technology
ANYbotics transforms industrial plants in the (renewable) energy, process, and utility sectors 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.
Your Contributions
- Design, implement, and deploy state-of-the-art AI-driven perception algorithms, including deep learning-based depth estimation, visual perception, and semantic understanding
- Lead research and integration of novel machine learning models to significantly enhance robot perception and autonomy
- Collaborate closely with hardware, software, and product teams to ensure seamless integration and optimization of perception systems on real-world robotic platforms
- Develop and maintain high-quality, efficient, and scalable software architectures in C++ and Python
- Continuously evaluate and improve model accuracy, computational efficiency, and reliability through rigorous testing and validation protocols
- Stay on top of cutting-edge research developments and effectively translate these into tangible product enhancements
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
Your Profile
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, or a related technical discipline
- Excellent at designing and deploying computer vision algorithms and AI perception models for robotics or autonomous systems
- Excellent expertise in machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and proficiency with modern software development practices
- Strong at writing C++ & Python for machine learning, writing high-quality, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code
- Strong grasp on how to apply recent research advances to industrial use cases
- Strong at exercising technical leadership, owns complex technical goals. Scopes and delegates work, guides execution, and aligns efforts with strategic outcomes
- Capable of training others in the state of the art of machine learning for robotics
- Capable of formulating clear requirements and explaining complex problems to others
- Capable of understanding and explain to others the challenges that come from working with multimodal sensor fusion
Bonus Points
- Experience with ROS
- Experience with CUDA, GPU programming, and optimization of neural networks for real-time applications
- Experience with the deployment of computer vision systems in production environments for robotic applications
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.
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The Company
What We Do
ANYbotics is a Swiss robotics company pioneering the development of autonomous mobile robotics. Our walking robots move beyond conventional, purpose-built environments and solve customer problems in challenging infrastructure so far only accessible to humans. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off from the world-leading robotics labs at ETH Zurich. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 100 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology. Our customers include leading international energy, industrial processing, and construction companies. In 2020, ANYbotics raised CHF 20 m in a Series A financing round and won several prizes, including the Swiss Economic Forum 2020 award.
