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# Field Engineer at Mimic Robotics

- **Company:** Mimic Robotics
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDqSSiXmaUbx-_CyE4PdTg8O

## Job description

Field Engineer Zurich, Switzerland | onsite | full-time

## About mimic

mimic is an early-stage deep tech robotics & AI start-up based in Zurich and supported by leading VCs. We give industry workers a helping hand for tedious manual labour tasks and mitigate labour shortages with a versatile automation platform. Our automation solutions, driven by dexterous robotic hands and cutting-edge AI trained on human observations, bring a new level of AI embodiment to the real world.

As a Field Engineer, you will own the deployment, commissioning, uptime, and operational performance of mimic's robot stations at customer sites. You will be responsible for installing, programming, integrating, and servicing complete robotic systems, including industrial robot arms, actuators, low-voltage electrical systems, control cabinets, and PLC-based automation. Working across hardware, electrical, and software domains, you will diagnose and resolve issues in real-world production environments, ensuring reliable system operation while acting as the primary technical contact during customer deployments. You will collaborate closely with the Engineering, AI, and Product teams to improve system reliability, streamline deployments, and help shape the next generation of industrial robotics platforms.

## Responsibilities

- Deploy, commission, and validate robotic stations at customer sites.
- Design, assemble, wire, and service low-voltage electrical systems, control cabinets, and robotics hardware.
- Integrate, program, and troubleshoot industrial actuators, sensors, PLCs, and automation systems.
- Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, and software issues across robotic systems, Linux environments, and mimic's software stack.
- Perform hardware integration, system testing, and commissioning to ensure reliable operation.
- Work closely with the AI team to reproduce, analyze, and resolve field failures.
- Serve as the primary technical contact on-site, providing professional customer support during deployments and service activities.
- Capture field learnings and drive continuous improvements to product reliability, deployment processes, and serviceability.

## What you bring

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience deploying, integrating, or commissioning industrial robotic systems.
- Hands-on experience designing, assembling, wiring, and troubleshooting low-voltage electrical systems and industrial control hardware.
- Experience programming, configuring, and debugging PLCs and industrial automation systems.
- Experience integrating industrial actuators, sensors, drives, and field devices.
- Comfortable working with electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and control documentation.
- Comfortable working with hand tools, mechanical assemblies, cabling, and hardware integration.
- Comfortable working and debugging in Linux environments.
- Strong troubleshooting skills spanning software, hardware, electrical, and electromechanical systems.
- Excellent communication skills in English (German is a strong plus).
- Willingness to travel frequently for customer deployments and customer support.
- Valid Category B driving license.

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with ROS2
- Experience with industrial communication protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, CANopen, or Modbus.
- Experience with industrial safety systems, functional safety, or machine commissioning.
- Experience designing electrical panels or machine control systems.
- Familiarity with CAD tools for electrical schematics (e.g. EPLAN) or mechanical integration.
- Experience working in industrial automation, special machinery, or robotic integration.

## Compensation & Benefits

- We offer a total compensation package including a competitive yearly base salary and a strong stock option package to make you part of our shared success.
- You will work with the founders from day one, shaping the company and participating in its success from its very beginning

You will have the opportunity to shape a robotics & AI company from the ground up. In flat hierarchies, you will work directly with the founders and some of the best talents in the robotics space. At mimic, you are accepted for who you are. As part of our ongoing journey towards creating a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage everyone to apply, and we are looking forward to you bringing along your knowledge, personal experiences, and fresh perspectives. Together, we can solve some of the greatest challenges in robotics.

## 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. [linkedin.com – Mimic Robotics Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/mimicrobotics)

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