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title: 'Field / Site Reliability Engineering Intern at Mimic Robotics'
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# Field / Site Reliability Engineering Intern at Mimic Robotics

- **Company:** Mimic Robotics
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDoKqqFHLXYGCvuCtlnngRW-

## Job description

mimic robotics 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 labor tasks and mitigate labor 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 / Site Reliability Engineering intern, you will help keep mimic’s in-house and deployed robots  running reliably and iteratively improve their performance through contributing to our software stack. In this role, Site Reliability Engineering means taking an automation-first approach to operating robots: systematically eliminating repetitive manual work, automating diagnostics and recovery, and building software that makes our robotic systems easier to deploy, monitor, and maintain. You will work hands-on across hardware, electrical, mechanical, and software domains to build, configure, commission, and debug complete robotic systems. You will investigate failures, help identify root causes, and work closely with Engineering, AI, and Development to improve system reliability and deployment processes.

## Requirements

- Enrolled Bachelor’s or Master’s student in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Automation Engineering, or a related field
- Hands-on experience building, integrating, or troubleshooting robotic, electromechanical, or automation systems
- Proficiency in several of the following: Linux, Python/C++, electrical systems, electronics, PLCs, industrial automation, sensors, actuators, motor drives, robotics, or networking
- Comfortable with electrical schematics, wiring, cabling, mechanical assemblies, and hand tools
- Strong systematic troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership
- Capable of working independently and collaborating across engineering disciplines
- Excellent communication skills in English (German is a strong plus)
- Willingness to travel for customer deployments
- Bonus: Valid Category B driving license

## Nice to Have

- Experience with industrial robotics, automation, or commissioning
- Familiarity with ROS2
- Experience with PLCs or industrial communication protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, CANopen, or Modbus
- Experience with control cabinets, low-voltage electrical systems, or industrial safety
- Familiarity with CAD
- Hands-on projects such as robotics projects, thesis work, or other extracurricular engineering

What Excites You

- Getting complex robotic systems to work reliably
- Hands-on problem solving across hardware, electronics, mechanics, and software
- Debugging problems where the answer isn't obvious
- Robotics, automation, and real-world AI
- Working with systems that combine many different engineering disciplines
- Being close to the hardware and seeing your work directly impact robot performance
- Deploying technology into the real world and making it reliable

What Excites Us

- Extracurricular projects: Show us what, why and how you built it!
- Ownership: You care about whether the robot is actually running, not just whether your part of the system is finished.
- Hands-on engineering: You enjoy working with real hardware, tools, wires, robots, and imperfect prototypes.

## 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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