Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.
London • Hardware • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence
Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
Post-training
Pre-training
AI Agents
Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Go
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
Tryolabs is a specialized AI and machine learning solutions company that helps companies create business value by partnering with them through their AI journey.
Data & Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2009
≈ $107k – $237k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
XGBoost
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Terraform
Auterion is a Swiss company founded in 2017 that builds an open operating system for drones and robotic vehicles. Its software is derived from the PX4 open source autopilot and powers fleets for defence, government and enterprise users. The company works closely with NATO members and American defence programmes.
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Robotics AI • Robotics • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2017
≈ $96k – $241k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
C++
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
OpenCV
Quantization
Robotics
MAVLink
ROS2
Sensor Fusion
SLAM
Our core values tell our story:Excellence. Creativity. Integrity. Teamwork. Empathy.
San Diego • Zurich • Artificial Intelligence • Design & Creative • Financial Services • Software • IT Consulting • Information Technology • 201-500 employees
≈ $118k – $260k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (Europe) • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
Python
SQL
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
Anomaly Detection
Claude
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
Hallucination
LLM
NLP
NumPy
Pandas
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
Reranking
Scikit-learn
Sentiment Analysis
Spark
TensorFlow
Vertex AI
Amazon SageMaker
Anthropic
Context Engineering
Hugging Face
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
Claude Code
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
Model Context Protocol
Semantic Kernel
LLM Guardrails
LLMOps
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Azure
GCP
Vector
Amazon S3
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
Matplotlib
Power BI
Seaborn
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Management
ServiceNow
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux, and middleware technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services.
HQ: Somerville, United States • Software • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1993
≈ $109k – $238k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • United Kingdom • Ireland • Remote (EMEA) • Full-Time • Architect • English: C1
Fine-tuning
Edge AI
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
OpenShift
Red Hat
Neo4j is the world's leading graph database platform, engineered specifically to store, query, and analyze highly connected data. Unlike traditional relational databases that rely on rigid tables and costly JOIN operations, Neo4j models data naturally using nodes (entities), relationships (connections), and properties (key-value attributes).
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Big Data • Information Technology • Database Management
Lead • Remote (EMEA) • Cofounder • Staff
Neo4j
AI/ML
Knowledge Graph
Synthesia is an AI video generation platform that enables users to create professional, studio-quality videos from plain text scripts without needing traditional cameras or film crews. The platform utilizes hyper-realistic digital avatars and natural synthetic voice models to deliver localized video content across dozens of languages in minutes. Widely adopted by corporate enterprises, Synthesia streamlines corporate training, customer onboarding, and internal communications at scale.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Software • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Video & Image Processing Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017
≈ $93k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
DeepSpeed
Diffusion Models
PyTorch
FSDP
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
DevOps
CI/CD
Datadog
AWS
Docker
SLURM
GitHub
Design
Webflow
Management
Miro
Remote (Europe) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
Datadog
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub
Design
Webflow
Management
Miro
≈ $136k – $298k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time • Staff
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Tokenization
DPO
Post-training
Time Series Forecasting
Diffusion Models
DevOps
Datadog
Design
Webflow
Management
Miro
Avaloq is a Swiss fintech company that provides software and services for banks, wealth managers, investment managers, and other financial institutions. Its solutions include core banking, wealth management, digital banking, cloud-based SaaS, and business-process-as-a-service offerings. Avaloq serves more than 170 financial institutions worldwide and is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation.
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Wealth Management • Financial Services • FinTech • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1985
≈ $93k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Chroma
Qdrant
AI/ML
AgentOps
AWS Bedrock
CrewAI
Google ADK
LangChain
LLM
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Vertex AI
Amazon SageMaker
Edge AI
Google AI Studio
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Rest API
Vector
Turn your product knowledge into an agent that answers, troubleshoots, and resolves. For humans and for the agents they.
New York • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
$100k – $170k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (Germany, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Austria) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
RAG
AI Agents
DevOps
Docker
Solidgate is a financial technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and founded in 2018. The company provides a payment orchestration platform that enables businesses to manage multiple payment service providers, optimize transaction routing, and handle subscription billing, fraud prevention, and tax calculation. It serves global clients in the software-as-a-service and e-commerce sectors, offering infrastructure that supports card acquiring, alternative payment methods, and multi-currency treasury operations.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Commerce • Fraud Detection • Cybersecurity • Billing & Invoicing • Software • FinTech • Financial Services • Payments • 201-500 employees • Est. 2018
≈ $81k – $206k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time • Senior
Edge AI
Analytics
A/B Testing
Capco is a global management and technology consultancy dedicated exclusively to the financial services industry, offering expertise in areas such as digital transformation, data management, and risk and compliance. The firm operates as a partner to leading banks, capital markets, insurance companies, and fintechs, helping them navigate complex regulatory environments and modernize their technological infrastructure. With a presence in major financial hubs around the world, it combines deep industry knowledge with innovative technology solutions to drive business agility and growth for its clients.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Capital Markets • Banking • Financial Services • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $117k – $195k per year (Estimated) • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • German: C1
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Spark
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Scandit is a Swiss company founded in 2009 that turns ordinary smartphones and cameras into high-performance barcode and text scanners using computer vision. Its software captures multiple codes at once, reads damaged labels and adds augmented reality overlays for warehouse and retail staff. Airlines, retailers and logistics providers deploy it across hundreds of thousands of devices.
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Cybersecurity • Professional Services • Data Entry & Processing • Est. 2009
≈ $99k – $250k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior • English: B2
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Headquartered in Pully, Switzerland, ELCASecurity is a specialized cybersecurity company and part of the Swiss IT services firm ELCA Group. The company offers a broad range of offensive and defensive security services, including cybersecurity consulting, risk assessment, and identity and access management solutions like trustID. Through its specialized divisions and local Security Operations Centers (SOC), it provides continuous threat detection and data protection tailored to Swiss businesses and public sector organizations.
Geneva • Zurich • Bern • Basel • Palermo • Incident Response • Information Security • Cybersecurity • 501-1000 employees
≈ $113k – $189k per year (Estimated) • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • German • English
JavaScript
TypeScript
Java
Java
Spring Boot
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Frontend
Angular
Sword Health is pioneering AI Care-an AI-first approach to healthcare that combines artificial intelligence with clinical expertise to improve access, outcomes, and cost at scale. Initially transforming pain care with AI at its core, Sword has expanded into women's health, movement health, and mental health, delivering hyper-personalized treatment programs available anytime, anywhere. Since 2020, more than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 million AI sessions, helping 1,000+ enterprise clients-including employers, health plans, and governments-avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs.
Porto • Medical AI • Physical Therapy • Digital Health • Est. 2014
$70k – $99k per year • Senior • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time • Senior
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
AI Agents
Function Calling
RLHF
DPO
LiveKit is an open-source real-time audio, video, and AI voice infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco. The company provides cloud and developer infrastructure designed to build ultra-low-latency video conferencing, live streaming, and interactive multimodal AI voice agents into web and mobile applications. Powered by flexible SDKs and scalable server orchestration, LiveKit is widely used by developers and enterprise teams to deploy real-time voice and video applications at global scale.
HQ: San Francisco, San Jose, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Synthetic Data
PEFT
LiveKit
OpenAI
Post-training
Fine-tuning
Llama
LoRA
Qwen
Reinforcement Learning
SGLang
vLLM
FSDP
GRPO
LLM Evaluation
Marketing
Salesforce
Cohere is a Canadian AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto. It builds secure, enterprise-focused large language models and AI tools for businesses and regulated industries. The company is known for emphasizing privacy, private deployment, and "sovereign AI" rather than consumer chat products
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Energy & Utilities • Biotechnology • Natural Language Processing • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019
≈ $126k – $277k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • New York • Remote (EU, Europe, United States, Canada) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Cohere SDK
JAX
LLM
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Ray
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
Odyssey is a deep-tech artificial intelligence startup building multimodal "world models" for interactive 3D simulations, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron (former VP of Product at Cruise and co-founder of Voyage) and Dr. Jeffrey Hawke (former VP of Technology at Wayve), the venture has raised over $337 million in funding - highlighted by a $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation led by Google Ventures, EQT Ventures, and Natural Capital.
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • NFT • Internet Services • Domain Names • 201-500 employees • Est. 2023
≈ $184k – $374k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 1+ year exp • In office (Palo Alto, United States, Zurich, Switzerland, London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
Multimodal AI
OpenAI
Computer Vision
Pre-training
≈ $184k – $374k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • In office (Palo Alto, United States, Zurich, Switzerland, London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
≈ $185k – $374k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 2+ years exp • In office (Palo Alto, United States, Zurich, Switzerland, London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
OpenAI
Overstory is a software company that helps businesses automate their processes and make better decisions. We offer a suite of products that can help you manage your workflows, track your progress, and get insights into your data. Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes unlock the power of their data and achieve their goals.
Nice • San Francisco • Earth Observation • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • 51-200 employees
≈ $171k – $320k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark) • Staff • Lithuanian (Optional) • Finnish (Optional) • Estonian (Optional) • Dutch (Optional) • Bulgarian (Optional) • Afrikaans (Optional) • Russian (Optional) • Portuguese (Optional) • Italian (Optional) • French (Optional) • Spanish (Optional) • German (Optional)
Computer Vision
LightGBM
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Vertex AI
XGBoost
DevOps
GCP
Cybersecurity
GDPR
≈ $151k – $273k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark) • Staff • Lithuanian (Optional) • Finnish (Optional) • Estonian (Optional) • Dutch (Optional) • Bulgarian (Optional) • Afrikaans (Optional) • Russian (Optional) • Portuguese (Optional) • Italian (Optional) • French (Optional) • Spanish (Optional) • German (Optional)
Python
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Check Point Software Technologies is a global cybersecurity leader headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, that pioneered the modern firewall. The company provides an AI-powered, cloud-delivered platform - Check Point Infinity - designed to protect organizations against advanced cyber threats across networks, endpoints, cloud, and IoT environments. Trusted by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, it delivers consolidated security management and real-time threat prevention to safeguard critical enterprise data.
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Information Security • Network Security • Cybersecurity • Est. 1993
≈ $96k – $242k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years exp • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • Full-Time • Senior
Bjak is a Malaysia-based insurtech company founded in 2019. It operates Southeast Asia's largest online insurance platform, letting users compare, buy, and renew insurance policies digitally. The company is headquartered in Petaling Jaya and focuses on making insurance more accessible and convenient.
HQ: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia • Financial Services • FinTech • Insurance • Est. 2019
≈ $116k – $194k per year (Estimated) • Zurich • Remote (Switzerland) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
JAX
LLM
PyTorch
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
vLLM
DevOps
Vector
≈ $116k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Switzerland) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
JAX
LLM
PyTorch
Context Engineering
Structured Outputs
OpenAI
DevOps
Vector
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Senior |
8 |
$98K |
$120K |
$161K |
| All levels |
17 |
$120K |
$161K |
$225K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 88 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Zurich from 58 companies. 5 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 43 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
17 of these Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Zurich state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $120K and $225K a year, with a median of $161K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Switzerland (52), France (5), Poland (4), United Kingdom (1), and Denmark (1). 48% of the listings are fully remote and a further 14% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Zurich right now are Odyssey AI (7), Synthesia (5), Harmattan AI (5), Skydio (5), RIVR (4), and Mistral AI (3). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (49), LLM (30), PyTorch (29), AI Agents (27), Multimodal AI (23), Kubernetes (20), Computer Vision (19), and Fine-tuning (19). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Zurich, 6 state visa sponsorship, 9 offer a relocation package, and 7 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
