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Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary AI research and pave the way from science to society.\nProject backgroundAs AI for Science Engineer you build the frontier AI systems that help researchers across ETH accelerate their research with frontier AI. You will partner with research labs to understand their scientific challenges and co-develop agentic solutions: multi-step pipelines that plan and orchestrate simulations and experiments, curate data, evaluate models, or chain domain-specific tools in ways that weren't possible before.\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who wants to ship AI solutions, not just infrastructure — someone who sees a research challenge and immediately starts thinking about what combination of agents, models, and pipelines could solve it. Part of the work is carried out together with external research and industry partners.\nJob descriptionPartner with research labs across ETH to identify high-impact use cases for agentic AI and co-develop novel pipelines and tools.\nBuild planning and orchestration components that turn research goals into executable workflows under constraints such as cost, latency, and fidelity, and adapt as new results come in.\nMake what the system does inspectable: traceable runs, reproducible results, and interfaces that let researchers understand and steer the work.\nSupport research teams with data preparation and curation, and help them optimize, specialize, and deploy models — fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, and efficient inference.\nContribute to the evaluation and benchmarking of AI systems on scientific tasks, including open and closed frontier AI models.\nDevelop and open-source reusable recipes, reference architectures, and templates that lower the barrier for others to build on.\nStay at the frontier of agentic AI: evaluate emerging frameworks, prototype new patterns, advise research teams.\nContribute to teaching and student projects.\nProfilePreferably a doctorate in computer science or a computational discipline; a master's degree with strong relevant experience is equally welcome. Our main counterparts are researchers, so being able to engage with them on their own terms matters.\nExperience building and deploying agentic or LLM-based systems end to end, not only using them - typically 1–3 years of relevant experience, though exceptional recent graduates are encouraged to apply too.\nStrong software and systems engineering skills: services, APIs, data pipelines, containers, CI/CD.\nHands-on experience with modern AI/ML tooling (LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, PyTorch, HuggingFace) and with model optimization and efficient inference.\nExperience with GPU computing and high-performance or distributed computing environments.\nExposure to planning, scheduling, workflow engines, or reasoning systems, and to scientific computing workflows, is an advantage; open-source contributions are a strong plus.\nAn effective communicator who bridges researchers and engineers — proactive, delivery-oriented, and keen to enable others to do their best work.\nFluency in English.\nWe offerIf you are a highly motivated individual with a passion for AI and a desire to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we would love to hear from you. Join the ETH AI Center and work at the forefront of AI research in Europe, collaborating with leading faculty, global partners, and a rapidly growing ecosystem in Zurich.\nETH Zurich is a family-friendly employer with excellent working conditions. You can look forward to an exciting working environment, cultural diversity and attractive offers and benefits.\nWorking, teaching and research at ETH ZurichWe value diversity and sustainabilityIn line with our values, ETH Zurich encourages an inclusive culture. We promote equality of opportunity, value diversity and nurture a working and learning environment in which the rights and dignity of all our staff and students are respected. Visit our Equal Opportunities and Diversity website to find out how we ensure a fair and open environment that allows everyone to grow and flourish. Sustainability is a core value for us – we are consistently working towards a climate-neutral future.Curious? So are we.We look forward to receiving your online application with the following documents:\nResume\nCover letter\nAny relevant portfolio or project samples\nFurther information about the ETH AI Center can be found on our website. Questions regarding the position should be directed to Arnout Devos  (no applications).\nPlease note that we exclusively accept applications submitted through our online application portal. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered.\nWe would like to point out that the pre-selection is carried out by the responsible recruiters and not by artificial intelligence.\nFor recruitment services the GTC of ETH Zurich apply.\nAbout ETH ZürichETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in\nscience and technology. We are renowned for our excellent education,\ncutting-edge fundamental research and direct transfer of new knowledge\ninto society. Over 30,000 people from more than 120 countries find our\nuniversity to be a place that promotes independent thinking and an\nenvironment that inspires excellence. 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