Postdoctoral Position in Machine Learning for Engineering Design, Robotics, and AI-Guided Optimization ETH Zurich in Switzerland

IMOS Lab at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is hiring a PhD researcher in Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Plant Operations . The project combines agentic AI , physics-informed models , digital twins , and engineering knowledge to monitor plant conditions, diagnose abnormalities, and support operating decisions in complex process plants. This opportunity is well suited to applicants with a strong background in machine learning and engineering, especially those interested in trustwor...

Postdoctoral opportunity in AI-improved robotic welding control for the production of large steel structures. The SDU Center for Large Structure Production is seeking a talented postdoctoral researcher to join the DeepWind² project. The role focuses on applying artificial intelligence to improve robotic welding control in large-scale steel structure manufacturing, with relevance to robotics, mechanical engineering, computer science, automation, and industrial production. Applicants should consul...

ETH Zurich’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab (am|z), led by Prof. Markus Bambach, is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in humanoid robotics , 3D perception , and embodied AI for autonomous manufacturing. The project focuses on enabling humanoid robots to perceive, understand, and interact with complex manufacturing environments using novel RGB-D sensing technologies. Research topics include robot perception , semantic segmentation , 3D scene understanding , simulation-to-real transfer , autonomous man...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in fly neuroscience and robotics within the Neuroengineering Laboratory. The project is ERC-funded and focuses on reverse-engineering insect limb motor control for bioinspired robotics . The research centers on the neural circuits of the fly ( Drosophila melanogaster ) and how they orchestrate limb movements and autonomous behavior in complex environments. Possible work includes microscopy-based neural record...

The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...