AI PhD Positions in Switzerland

36 active PhD roles in Switzerland, with salaries ranging from CHF 40,000 to CHF 70,000 per year. Top employers include ETH Zürich, University of St. Gallen (HSG), EPFL, Idiap Research Institute, and University of Zürich. Most positions are in Zürich, St. Gallen, and Lausanne.

Idiap Research Institute

PhD student (Doctoral Researcher) in Multi-Modal Shared Autonomy in Assistive Robotics

Martigny MACHINE LEARNING AI-NATIVE
Idiap Research Institute

PhD student (Doctoral Researcher) in Knowledge Alignment for RNA Language Models (SATURNA)

Martigny FINE-TUNING AI-NATIVE
Idiap Research Institute

PhD student (Doctoral Researcher) in Behaviour Understanding for Healthcare Applications

Martigny MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNINGSUPERVISED LEARNINGUNSUPERVISED LEARNING
ETH Zürich

PhD Researcher in Trustworthy and Human-Centred AI Development

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL FINE-TUNING
University of Zürich

PhD position in the field of law and economics, empirical legal studies or legal data science 80%

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING NLP
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Research Associate/PhD Candidate in Building and Scaling Agentic AI in Organizations

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE LLM RAG AGENTIC
University of Bern

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

Bern LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL LLMS
University of Bern

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

Bern LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL LLMS
University of Basel

PhD in Media Psychology with a focus on AI chatbot use and social relationships

Basel AI-JOBTITLE
University of Zürich

2x PhD Positions as part of the SNSF Project “From Alps to Arctic: Satellite-based Assessment of Forest Canopy Height across Decades” 80%

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNINGSUPERVISED LEARNINGCOMPUTER VISION
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Candidate / Research Associate in the Field of Data & AI Governance for Digital Value Creation

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE
ETH Zürich

PhD position in predicting Thermodynamics and Processes for Circular Carbon Plastics

Zürich MACHINE LEARNINGPREDICTIVE MODELTRAINING DATA
BFH

PhD Candidate in Clinical AI, Data Privacy and Large Language Models

Biel AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL NLP
IBM Research

PhD Position — Time and Memory Efficient Proof Systems

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING AI-NATIVE
ETH Zürich

PhD on Quantum Computing × AI for Optimization

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNINGTRAINING DATA
ZHAW

Doktorand:in (PhD) - Automatische Sprachverarbeitung

Winterthur MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER VISION
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in AI for Materials Modeling

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING GENERATIVE MODEL
University of Zürich

PhD position: Multi-temporal forest canopy height reconstruction from satellite data 80%

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
EPFL

PhD positions in AI for Science (Health, Biology)

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING GENERATIVE MODEL
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in AI-Supported Resilience Assessment of Climate-Neutral Transport Infrastructure

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Candidate in Agentic AI, Strategy, and Industrial Transformation

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING GENERATIVE AI
ETH Zürich

PhD position in Biohybrid Robotics

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
EPFL

PhD Position in Interpretable AI for Coupled Multiphysics of Geomaterials

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in Vehicle Sensor and Remote Sensing Analysis for Road Safety

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISIONPREDICTIVE MODEL
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in Infrastructure Intervention Effectiveness Analysis for Road Safety

Zürich COMPUTER VISIONPREDICTIVE MODEL
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in Computer Vision Applied to Natural Hazards

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Position in AI-Driven Marketing and Agentic Commerce

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE AGENTIC
CSEM

PHD in Edge AI and Vision System

Neuchâtel AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
EPFL

PhD Student in Physics Informed Graph Neural Networks for Wind Turbine Health Monitoring

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
University of Bern

PhD Position in Statistics with a focus on Statistical Machine Learning for Self-Driving Microscopy

Bern AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING
Meta

Research Scientist Intern, AI/ML, Core Ads Growth (PhD)

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
ETH RSL

PhD Positions in Robotics and AI

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
UZH RPG

PhD / Postdoc Positions in AI & Robotics

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
EPFL

PhD Multimodal Generative AI for Materials Design

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING GENERATIVE AI
EPFL

PhD Student in (multi agent) reinforcement learning for health aware control

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Researcher Zurich AI Lab

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE PYTORCH TENSORFLOW