--- title: 'Data Collector / part-time job / 8 to 40 hours a week at Mimic Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-collector-part-time-job-8-to-40-hours-a-week-mimic-robotics-zurich-kex12q53kebp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Data Collector / part-time job / 8 to 40 hours a week at Mimic Robotics - **Company:** Mimic Robotics - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** contract - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-06-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDrn8lAGYc4lp3uIrvlOySmx ## Job description This is a part-time job that fits around your life. Work 8 to 40 hours a week, choosing from three daily shifts between 7:00 and 21:00, Monday to Friday. At mimic, we build robots that learn new skills directly from you. We're a deep-tech startup in Zurich, backed by leading investors and working on one of the most exciting problems in tech. As a Data Collector, you'll generate the data that teaches our robots how to move. Wearing our data-capture gloves (have a look [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3tRQ1YE-8)!), you'll perform manual tasks by hand and collect the human demonstrations our models learn from. We run three shifts a day, Monday to Friday, each 4 hours long. Work a single shift or combine two in a row for an 8-hour day. You choose how much you work, from 8 to 40 hours a week: - Morning — 8:00 to 12:00 (possibility to start earlier 7:00-11:00 or later 9:00-13:00) - Afternoon — 13:00 to 17:00 - Evening — 17:00 to 21:00 (possibility to start later 18:00-22:00) What you'll do: - Put on our data-capture gloves (see [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3tRQ1YE-8)) and get going: gather rich datasets and help our robots learn directly from human hands. - Collect and label high-quality datasets. - Work with the team to keep data collection running smoothly. What you bring: - Tolerance for repetitive work. - Attention to detail. - A clear communicator and team player. - You speak English or German. What we offer: - 25 CHF/hour. - Plannable hours that still fit around your life: pick from 8 to 40 hours a week. Scale back during exam season and holidays. - A great office right next to MFO Park in Oerlikon. - Amazing teammates. ## About Mimic Robotics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mimic Robotics builds general-purpose robots for factory floors, using frontier AI and video-action models to achieve dexterous, autonomous manipulation in unstructured environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $20.8M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (with a research unit in San Francisco, USA) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Benedek Forrai (Co-Founder & Lead Roboticist), Stephan-Daniel Gravert (Co-Founder & CPO), Robert Katzschmann (Co-founder & Scientific Advisor) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Robotics engineering / AI-powered industrial automation - **Target customers**: B2B – manufacturing, logistics, and other operations that involve complex, tedious manual tasks - **Mission**: “enable humanity to create, produce and manufacture at will, with minimum effort” [mimicrobotics.com](https://www.mimicrobotics.com/about) ## Products & Services - **Video-Action Models**: A proprietary AI paradigm that leverages large-scale video pre-training to predict and execute robot actions, generalizing across unseen tasks and adapting to real-world variability. - **MIMIC-ONE Hand**: A 16‑DoF tendon‑driven humanoid hand controlled by a diffusion‑based architecture, achieving up to 93.3% task success on unseen tasks. - **LAD (Latent Action Diffusion)**: A framework that aligns action spaces across human hands, robotic hands, and grippers via contrastive learning, enabling a single policy to control multiple robot embodiments. - **MAPLE**: A research collaboration with ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research that learns dexterous manipulation priors from large‑scale egocentric video of human hand interactions. - **Robot Stations**: Available in one‑ or two‑arm configurations, mounted on a stationary table or an autonomous mobile platform – platform‑agnostic to fit the customer’s specific use case. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$20.8 million** (as of 2025, including a $16M seed round led by Speedinvest and Elaia, plus grants from Venture Kick, Innosuisse, and others) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mimicrobotics) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Speedinvest, Elaia, Venture Kick, Innosuisse; research partners include ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of 40 employees (~166.7% YoY growth) - LinkedIn following of 18,395 (+273.6% YoY) - Featured among Switzerland’s most exciting emerging ventures - Active job postings for AI, robotics, and field engineering roles ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Video-Action Models** that outperform traditional VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models by using native video pre-training with rich physics representations. - **Cross‑embodiment learning** via LAD, allowing a single model to control different robot hands and grippers, delivering ~25% improvement in manipulation success. - **Full‑stack approach** from AI research to hardware design (custom 16‑DoF humanoid hand) and deployment in customer facilities. - **World‑class team** drawing talent from Google DeepMind, Tesla Optimus, ETH Zurich, MIT, and Stanford. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling from research to real‑world customer deployments: “delivering value to our customers and their everyday operational reality.” - Expanding the team across AI research, hardware, robotics, data operations, and business development. - Building a “general purpose robot” that can be rapidly adapted to new use cases, driving down the cost and complexity of industrial automation. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Bias toward action” – solving real problems on factory floors, not just publishing papers. Tight‑knit team of ~50 people from diverse backgrounds. - **Work environment**: In‑office roles in Zurich (HQ) and San Francisco; roles include AI Research Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer, and Field Engineer. - **Engineering culture**: Cutting‑edge AI research combined with hands‑on hardware and systems work; collaboration with top academic labs (ETH Zurich, MIT). - **Growth opportunity**: Join a fast‑growing startup (166% headcount increase) at the frontier of physical AI, with direct impact on product and customer success. ## Sources 1. [mimicrobotics.com – Homepage](https://www.mimicrobotics.com/) 2. [mimicrobotics.com – About](https://www.mimicrobotics.com/about) 3. [mimicrobotics.com – Careers](https://www.mimicrobotics.com/careers) 4. [jobs.gem.com – Mimic Robotics Open Positions](https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com) 5. 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