You manage and maintain Physical AI research and teaching equipment and multiple laboratory spaces, work with industrial partners on a regular basis, and participate in research projects together with our teams at our Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI).
School: School of Engineering
Starting date: May 2026 or by agreement (1 year contract).
Your role
* 30% of employment: Being the go‑to person at the CAI for all aspects of our robotics laboratories and all related equipment, including industrial robot arms, sensors, various humanoid robots, a fleet of quadrupeds and other research and teaching equipment. You also manage and maintain local servers, networks, onboard computers and cloud‑based infrastructure (e.g. simulation environments, training pipelines).
* Employment exceeding 30%: Participation in applied research and development projects as senior robotics engineer / postdoctoral researcher in the EMA research group (reinforcement learning, large multi‑modal models, agentic embodied AI systems, publications, open‑source code contributions etc.).
* Working in a dynamic environment that currently includes planning, procurement, building, and operations (including lab safety).
* Collaborating with the heads of both robotics groups at the CAI (Industrial AI + Embodied Mobile Agents) and interfacing with their researchers and students to continually adapt the robotics laboratories to user needs, provide training and best practices.
Your profile
* We are looking for a pragmatic person with a strong drive to build things that work and are appealing to use (a “maker
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