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The EPFL Robotics Center seeks a professional with a solid robotics background, hands-on engineering experience and strong presentation skills to act as the technical bridge between its laboratories and industrial partners.\nYour technical expertise will underpin the role: understanding laboratory capabilities, assessing industrial challenges, preparing and presenting robotics demonstrations, and supporting the development of relevant research opportunities. You will combine practical engineering with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently with researchers, industrial partners and visitors.\nMission\nYour mission is to apply your robotics expertise to make the Center's laboratory capabilities visible, accessible and ready for collaboration - and to help translate industrial needs into relevant research opportunities. Working closely with laboratory teams, you will develop and maintain a thorough technical map of their expertise. You will prepare and run live demonstrations during visits, workshops and events, prepare audience-adapted technical materials with the lab teams, and help scope technical follow-up.\nMain duties and responsibilities\nDevelop, adapt, and improve prototypes and demonstrators to showcase robotics technologies and maintain technical documentation, software configurations, setup procedures, and operating instructions to ensure systems can be operated reliably.\nIntegrate lab demonstrators into event and visit setups, including on-site installation, interfacing, calibration and troubleshooting.\nBuild and maintain detailed hands-on knowledge of the participating laboratories’ robotic platforms, software stacks, prototypes and experimental setups.\nKeep an up-to-date technical map of lab capabilities, including technology readiness levels, available demonstrators, equipment and key contacts among PhD students and postdocs.\nWork with lab engineers and researchers to keep demonstrators operational, transportable and ready to show.\nAct as the technical contact for industry requests: clarify the need, check feasibility and identify the matching labs.\nWrite short technical pre-assessments and involve professors only when there is a clear research fit.\nSet up and run live demonstrations during visits, workshops and events, and explain what the systems can and cannot do.\nPrepare technical materials with the lab teams, adapted to each audience.\nHelp scope technical follow-up, such as feasibility studies, tests and proposal content, and coordinate practical next steps with labs, companies and EPFL services.\nProfile\nMaster’s or PhD degree in robotics or a closely related engineering field, with a demonstrated specialisation in robotics.\nDemonstrated hands-on engineering experience in robotics, including the integration, programming, testing, and troubleshooting of robotic systems.\nStrong practical skills in robotics software and hardware, with experience in areas such as ROS/ROS 2, C++ or Python, sensors, actuators, control systems, robotic perception.\nAbility to understand research contributions, discuss industrial requirements and assess the fit between technical challenges and laboratory expertise.\nStrong speaking and presentation skills, with the ability to demonstrate technologies and explain complex concepts accurately to different audiences.\nGood organisational skills and the ability to work autonomously within agreed priorities.\nFamiliarity with Swiss and European research and innovation ecosystems is an asset.\nExcellent command of English, German and French.\nPlease note that only applications meeting the criteria of the advertisement will be considered.\nWe offer\nAt EPFL, we believe that people achieve great results when they feel supported, respected and enabled to succeed. 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