Senior AI Engineer - VLA Foundation Model
RIVRZurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Posted November 5, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
RIVR is a Swiss robotics company specializing in Physical AI solutions to revolutionize last-mile delivery. Utilizing artificial neural networks and innovative robot designs with wheels and legs, RIVR enhances efficiency, sustainability, and scalability in logistics. The company's key focus areas include mobility, autonomy, and embodied AI, making them distinctive in the intelligent robotics industry.
Job Description
RIVR is a Swiss robotics company pioneering Physical AI and robotic solutions to revolutionize last-mile delivery. We are seeking an expert in VLA models, imitation learning, and generative AI techniques to develop multi-modal models that enable robots to autonomously generate actions from demonstrations, real-time sensor data, and natural language commands.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field
- A minimum of three years of industry or research experience
- Strong deep learning fundamentals
- Proven experience in developing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
- Strong background in robotics including autonomy, navigation
- Experience with deploying artificial neural networks on hardware platforms
- Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks in Python (Pytorch)
