--- title: 'Office & Operations Coordinator at Mimic Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/office-operations-coordinator-mimic-robotics-zurich-0w2xvg09hr2y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Office & Operations Coordinator at Mimic Robotics - **Company:** Mimic Robotics - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDpwMTM1BIVejZST4-rHmuvZ ## Job description 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 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 an an Office & Operation Coordinator you'll be at the center of keeping the company running smoothly. You'll take ownership of our office and day-to-day operations, support the founders, and make sure the many small but important things behind a fast-growing startup get done. This is a hands-one role with a lot of autonomy and variety. From running the office and coordinating with suppliers to supporting finance, administration, and the founding team, you'll step in wherever needed and help build the operational backbone of the company as we grow. What Excites You - A varied, hands-on role where no two days are exactly the same. - Keeping the office running and sorting out practical problems as they come up. - Helping the founders and team stay organised. - Working in a fast-moving and fast-growing robotics company. What Excites Us - Experience in a startup, scale-up or similarly fast-moving environment. - Experience with office management and general admin, ideally combined with executive-assistant or founder-support responsibilities. - Someone who is happy to do the work themselves, follows up and gets things over the line. - A practical, organised approach and the ability to handle changing priorities. - Good judgement, discretion and a helpful attitude. - Comfort with digital tools and picking up new systems. - Fluent English; German is a plus for local administration and vendor communication. ## Responsibilities - Manage the office day to day: supplies, facilities, access, deliveries, suppliers and anything else that needs sorting out. - Keep the office tidy, organised and ready for the team and visitors. - Support the founders with calendars, meeting coordination, travel and other practical requests. - Handle finance and general administration, including invoices, expenses, payment preparation and related paperwork. - Keep track of deadlines, open tasks and important documents. - Follow up with suppliers and other external contacts when needed. - Notice problems early, prioritise what needs attention and get things done. ## 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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