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# Senior Robotics Engineer at Mimic Robotics

- **Company:** Mimic Robotics
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDrDF0X_aRCxRpXYBYccUZZr

## Job description

Senior Robotics Engineer Zurich, Switzerland | onsite | full-time

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 Senior Robotics Engineer, you will develop, deploy and test infrastructure for teleoperation and autonomous operation in the context of dexterous robotic manipulation, and closely work with our robotics and AI team to achieve safe and robust operation on site.

## Responsibilities

- Own the middleware: Engineer low-latency, highly reliable middleware bridging from VLA/VAM AI models to the firmware layer. Ensure strict control loop timing, deterministic packet scheduling, and seamless translation of learned policies into physical action.
- Control Systems: Lead the design of the control algorithms that make our physical AI interact with the world. Design, implement and test middleware across multiple robot platforms.
- Safety, Certification & Tooling: Lead the charge on building a certified, reliable, and safe real-time control stack ready for client deployment at scale.

## What you bring

- Strong Proficiency in C++, Rust, and/or Python, with 5+ years of real production experience building real-time robotics systems or complex control stacks.
- Deep Robotics Expertise: Thorough understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and modern control theory, combined with practical Linux systems programming (scheduling, RTOS principles, hardware interfaces).
- Systems Mindset: An ability to optimize the stack end-to-end. A mindset fiercely focused on determinism, physical safety, scalability, and hard real-time correctness.
- Deployed to production Track record of deploying highly reliable, physical robotic systems in commercial settings.
- Fluent English speaker.
- Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

## Nice to have

- Deep familiarity with the quirks of multi-DOF manipulators and dexterous end-effectors.
- Experience in hard real-time distributed systems and industrial communication protocols (e.g., EtherCAT, CAN, ROS2).
- Experience in safety certification standards for robotic manipulators
- Experience interfacing directly with VLA/VAM models or deploying end-to-end learned policies onto physical hardware.

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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