AI Research Positions at Swiss Universities

45 active AI roles in Swiss academia, with salaries between CHF 20,000 and CHF 140,000 annually. Top employers include ETH Zürich, EPFL, the University of St. Gallen (HSG), ZHAW, and the University of Basel. Positions span Zürich, St. Gallen, and Basel.

SUPSI

Scientific Collaborator in AI-enabled Precision Health

Lugano AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
SUPSI

Scientific Collaborator in the area of Machine Learning and NLP in financial industry

Lugano MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
University of Zürich

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

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
ZHAW

Lehrbeauftragte Enterprise Software (ERP, CRM, KI) im Prozessmanagement auf Bachelorstufe 20%

Winterthur AI-JOBTITLE
EPFL

Postdoctoral researcher position at EPFL AI for Science (Health, Biology)

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING GENERATIVE MODEL
EPFL

Regulatory Data Manager for AI for Health Initiatives

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE
EPFL

PhD positions in AI for Science (Health, Biology)

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING GENERATIVE MODEL
EPFL

Program Manager at the EPFL AI Center and the Swiss National AI Institute

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE
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
EPFL

PostDoc Position at EPFL on Frontier Artificial Intelligence Research

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING GENERATIVE AI GENERATIVE MODEL
EPFL

2 PostDoc Positions at EPFL on Biological Foundation Models

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING FOUNDATION MODEL FINETUNING AGENTIC
EPFL

Operations Manager EPFL AI Center

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE
University of Basel

Research, Outreach & Community Engagement Officer (100%)

Basel LLMS AGENTIC
University of Basel

Senior Research Data Specialist & Team Coordinator (100%)

Basel LLMS AGENTIC
University of Basel

PhD on Hydrological model-data interaction and machine learning for headwater catchment analyses

Basel MACHINE LEARNING
University of Zürich

Studentische Hilfskraft KI-Tutorate

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE
University of Bern

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

Bern MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING GENERATIVE AI
FHNW

Wissenschaftliche/*r Assistierende*r AI-Leadership 60%

Olten AI-JOBTITLE
ETH Zürich

Senior Storage & Data Engineer

LuganoML ENGINEER PYTORCH TENSORFLOW
EPFL

Research Software Engineer

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING LLM
EPFL

Data Scientist (WM)

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING PYTORCH
ETH Zürich

PhD position in Biohybrid Robotics

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
FHNW

Professor*in für Industrial AI (80 - 100%)

Windisch AI-JOBTITLE
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
FHNW

Professor*in für Spatial Data Science und Künstliche Intelligenz 80-100%

Muttenz MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING
FHNW

Professor*in für Photogrammetric Computer Vision 80-100 %

Muttenz COMPUTER VISION
EPFL

Post Training Engineer Apertus

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOUNDATION MODEL
ETH Zürich

PhD Position in Computer Vision Applied to Natural Hazards

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
ETH Zürich

PhD Position: Molecular Thermodynamics and Transport Modeling for the Energy Transition

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

PhD Position in AI-Driven Marketing and Agentic Commerce (m/w/d)

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE AGENTIC
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Growth Marketing Manager ES-HSG (m/w/d)

St. Gallen LLM AGENTIC
ETH Zürich

Doctoral position in social indicator development with text-based and spatial data

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
ETH Zürich

Doctoral Position in AI-Assisted Bridge Assessment for Special Road Transports

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING
Paul Scherrer Institute

PhD Student in Electronic-Structure Machine Learning for Materials

Villigen MACHINE LEARNING FOUNDATION MODEL
EPFL

Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis

Lausanne REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGPREDICTIVE MODEL
ETH Zürich

Associate to the Directors at ETH AI Center

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

Leiter IT Service Management (m/w/d)

St. Gallen LLMS AGENTIC
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD-Candidate/ Research Associate in Generative and Agentic AI and Digital Platforms (m/w/d)

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE AGENTIC
ETH Zürich

Senior NLP Data Scientist

Zürich MACHINE LEARNING FOUNDATION MODEL LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL FINE-TUNING
EPFL

Postdoc in an aeronautics related field (CVLAB)

Lausanne DEEP LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
SUPSI

Assistenti Bachelor in formazione Master MSE in Data Science

Lugano MACHINE LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
EPFL

PhD position Forest treeline management in the Swiss Alps

Sion DEEP LEARNINGPREDICTIVE MODEL
ETH Zürich

Doctoral position on PFAS Pathways: Tracking “Forever Chemicals” through Soil–Groundwater Interfaces for Safer Water

Zürich MACHINE LEARNINGPREDICTIVE MODEL
EPFL

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

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK
EPFL

Postdoc position in Gen AI

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING COMPUTER VISION
EPFL

Postdoc position in 3D Computer Vision, remote sensing _

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING COMPUTER VISION GENERATIVE AI
University of Bern

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

Bern MACHINE LEARNING
ETH RSL

PostDoc Positions in Robotics and AI

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE 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

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Genomics, Machine Learning & Single Cell Biology

Geneva MACHINE LEARNING
EPFL

Postdoc position on AI alignment and safe AI available at EPFL DLAB

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL
EPFL

Postdoc position on AI alignment and safe AI available at EPFL DLAB

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL
EPFL

PhD Multimodal Generative AI for Materials Design

Lausanne AI-JOBTITLE DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING GENERATIVE AI
EPFL

Software Engineer Position for Scientific AI

Geneva AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING PYTORCH TENSORFLOW
EPFL

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

Lausanne MACHINE LEARNING DEEP LEARNING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
ETH Zürich

Doctoral researcher (PhD Position) in Conversational AI for Customer and Employee Interactions

Zürich AI-JOBTITLE MACHINE LEARNING FINE-TUNING PROMPT ENGINEERING
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Position “Big Data Infrastructures” (m/f/d)

St. Gallen MACHINE LEARNING AGENTIC PYTORCH TENSORFLOW
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Researcher Zurich AI Lab (m/w/d)

St. Gallen AI-JOBTITLE AGENTIC PYTORCH TENSORFLOW
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

PhD Position in Machine Learning Systems & Data Science (m/w/d)

St. Gallen MACHINE LEARNING AGENTIC PYTORCH SCIKIT-LEARN