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title: 'Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure at Mimic Robotics'
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# Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure at Mimic Robotics

- **Company:** Mimic Robotics
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/mimicrobotics-com/am9icG9zdDq1RiGgW4veff_Dl5151Em2

## Job description

At mimic we are a frontier physical AI company pioneering general-purpose dexterous manipulation across the entire stack. Spun out of ETH Zurich research in 2024, our team develops both state-of-the-art Video-Action Models and custom, in-house robotic hand hardware. Our growing team brings together world-class researchers working across our offices in Zurich and San Francisco.

## The Role

As a Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure, you'll join a small, high-impact team building the compute, systems, and tooling that power our research and robots, from GPU clusters and training infrastructure to the platforms that deploy models onto real hardware. We're hiring engineers with different strengths, and you'll own meaningful parts of the stack from day one.

## What you might work on

Depending on your background, you'll focus on one or more of these areas:

- Compute platform & DevOps: Build and operate our internal platform for managing GPU clusters and scheduling workloads. Own reliability, observability, security, access control, and cost efficiency across our compute.
- Distributed systems & scaling: Scale our infrastructure as data volume, training runs, and robot fleets grow. Design systems that stay fast and reliable under load, and help lay the foundations of our robot deployment infrastructure.
- Agentic systems: Build and scale LLM-based agentic workflows, including automated data labeling and orchestration of multi-step pipelines, with a focus on reliability, evaluation, and cost.

We don't expect you to cover all three areas. Deep expertise in one matters more than breadth across all of them.

## Requirements

- Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean, modular, well-tested code, fluency with Git/GitHub, and a habit of proactively refactoring to keep systems understandable.
- Strong Python, plus comfort with at least one systems-level language or stack (e.g. Go, Rust, C++) or deep infrastructure tooling.
- Deep experience in at least one of: cloud/cluster infrastructure and DevOps, distributed systems, or production agentic/LLM systems.
- Clear communication: you explain technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and keep people informed without being asked.
- Ownership and initiative in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
- Hands-on experience with cluster orchestration and scheduling, such as Kubernetes, Ray, Slurm, or similar.
- Genuine excitement about robots that learn from real-world data.

## Nice to Have

- Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code.
- Managing GPU clusters (on-prem or cloud), including multi-node training setups.
- Security practices for infrastructure: networking, secrets management, IAM.
- Building agent frameworks, tool-use pipelines, or LLM evaluation systems.
- ML infrastructure fundamentals: PyTorch, data loading, distributed training, inference serving.
- Robotics, edge deployment, or sensor data (video, point clouds, time series).

## 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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