AI Solutions Engineer (100%)

We are Headswap, a small Zurich consultancy helping Swiss SMEs get real value from AI and Salesforce. We are looking for a junior consultant who works with AI agents the way the rest of the industry will in two years.

As a small business, your performance is about as close to the bottom line as you can get.

Who you are

• You know what a database is, how to structure data, and the principles of processing it.

• You can whisper to Claude Code or Codex like the horse whisperer — and find the 10x unlocks.

• You speak Swiss-German and build relationships through social finesse, organised dependability, and getting real working solutions that bring value into the hands of our clients.

How we work

• High pace, multi-tasking and result-oriented, with flexible schedules and office attendance.

• A very generous budget to play with tokens and new technology — and to try to make your own job redundant. (We just find the more we do, the more there is to do ;)

Life at Headswap

• We eat salads in the office most days.

• We enjoy and support each other while giving honest feedback.

• A transparent and honest environment.

The role

• Zurich · Full time · Hybrid

• CHF 62,000 to 84,000 gross per year, depending on experience

You can also apply via our careers page: https://headswap.careers.flair.hr/positions/a6zTG0000000IubYAE

Business Analyst Senior AI- und Process Automation
80%–100%
Finanzdepartement, IT BS

nach Vereinbarung

Ihre Aufgaben
Ganzheitliche Business Analyse:
Sie verstehen Kundenbedürfnisse tiefgreifend und begleiten KI-Projekte vom PoC bis zum Produkt. Sie erstellen klare Konzepte, steuern Changes und stellen ein effizientes Business-Verständnis an der Schnittstelle zwischen Fachbereich und IT sicher.

Requirements Engineering:
Souverän erstellen Sie Fachkonzepte, User Stories und Akzeptanzkriterien. Sie dokumentieren komplexe Anforderungen strukturiert und moderieren als starker Vermittler zwischen den Stakeholdern, um tragfähige technische Lösungen zu garantieren.

KI-Plattformen & Governance:
Sie bringen Know-how in Datenmodellierung, Qualität und Regulatorik ein. Sie evaluieren KI-Use-Cases, leiten Konzepte ab und nutzen Synergien, um datengetriebene Innovationen im Einklang mit Governance-Vorgaben sicher zu implementieren.

Automatisierung & Prozessoptimierung:
Sie identifizieren Automatisierungspotenziale in komplexen Prozessen. Mit datengestützten Lösungen – von klassischen RPA-Ansätzen bis hin zu modernen, agentenbasierten KI-Systemen – steigern Sie die Effizienz der kantonalen Verwaltung nachhaltig.

Skalierbare Produktentwicklung:
Sie übersetzen Fachwünsche in KI-Produkte. Durch einheitliche Frameworks entwickeln Sie skalierbare Lösungen wie Dokument-Generatoren, Chatbots oder Suchsysteme, die als adaptive Basis-Komponenten im gesamten Ökosystem einsetzbar sind.

Ihr Profil
Erfahrung:
Mehrjährige Erfahrung im Aufbau moderner Daten- und KI-Plattformen sowie in der Analyse komplexer Anforderungen. Sie sind sicher im Umgang mit Cloud-Architekturen, DataOps, MLOps und der Entwicklung datengetriebener Produkte.

Persönlichkeit:
Sie denken kundenorientiert, handeln proaktiv und übernehmen Verantwortung. Auch in komplexen Situationen bleiben Sie lösungsorientiert. Kommunikationsstärke, Verhandlungsgeschick und echte Teamfähigkeit zeichnen Ihre Arbeitsweise aus.

Ausbildung:
Höherer Abschluss (Uni/FH) in (Wirtschafts-)Informatik oder BWL. Sie bringen mehrjährige Erfahrung in der Business Analyse im Digitalisierungsumfeld (Applikationen) sowie fundierte Praxis in agilen Projektmethoden mit.

Sprache:
Stilsichere Kommunikation gegenüber unterschiedlichsten Kundengruppen. Sie formulieren präzise Konzepte und präsentieren diese souverän. Zwingend erforderlich sind sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse; gute Englischkenntnisse sind von Vorteil.

Einblick in unsere Arbeit
IT BS ist der interne Informatikdienstleister des Kantons Basel-Stadt und gehört zum Finanzdepartement. Die Abteilung stellt die Kollaborations- und Kommunikationsinfrastruktur für die mobilen und stationären IT-Arbeitsplätze und den dazugehörigen Support bereit. Zusätzlich entwickelt IT BS auch diverse Angebote für die Öffentlichkeit im Bereich eGovernment und Digitalisierung laufend weiter. Eine funktionierende IT ist für den effizienten Betrieb der Kantonsverwaltung zentral.

Die Abteilung Querschnittsapplikationen treibt die Digitalisierung im Kanton Basel-Stadt voran. Unser modulares Ökosystem umfasst u.a. eGovernment, die Geschäftsverwaltung, den Webauftritt bs.ch, UX/Design-System, Chatbots sowie Low-Code-, Entwicklungs, KI- und Datenplattformen. Als Mitglied im neuen crossfunktionalen Team KI- und Process Automation entwickeln Sie Lösungen, die der kantonalen Verwaltung echten Mehrwert bieten. Durch präzise Business Analysen steigern Sie die Kundenzufriedenheit nachhaltig und prägen so die digitale Zukunft des Kantons aktiv mit.

Ihre Vorteile
Nutzen Sie Ihre Talente und Ihr Potenzial:
Wir unterstützen Ihr berufliches Vorankommen mit einer Vielzahl von Weiterbildungs- und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten über alle Lebensphasen hinweg.

Vereinbaren Sie Ihren Beruf mit Ihrem Privatleben:
Wir unterstützen Sie dabei bestmöglich mit Gleitzeit, Teilzeit und Homeoffice bis hin zu Jahres- und Vertrauensarbeitszeit sowie Jobsharing-Möglichkeiten.

Arbeiten Sie im Herzen von Basel:
Unsere zentral gelegenen Standorte sind zu Fuss, mit dem Velo und mit den öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln gut erreichbar.

Ihr Kontakt
Fragen zur Funktion
Philipp Klett, Leiter Data Management Solutions IT BS, Tel. +41 79 319 52 96

Fragen zu Ihrer Bewerbung
Anja Staub, HR-Business Partnerin / Inserat Nr. 1528, Tel. +41 61 267 95 70

Vielseitig.Arbeiten für Basel-Stadt.
Etwas ist all unseren mehr als 11’000 Mitarbeitenden gemeinsam: Sie engagieren sich am Puls der Stadt, indem sie unterstützen, befähigen, lenken, gestalten und schützen. So tragen sie mit ihrem Einsatz jeden Tag dazu bei, Basel-Stadt lebens- und liebenswert zu machen. Genauso vielfältig wie unsere Aufgaben sind unsere Mitarbeitenden sowie Ihre Möglichkeiten. Willkommen im Team des Kantons Basel-Stadt!

Job Type
Full Time

Job Reference #
341631BR

City
Glattbrugg

About Us
UBS Card Center AG with its headquarters in Glattbrugg and an additional office in Manno TI is part of UBS Switzerland AG and employs over 750 people. As the leading credit card processor in Switzerland, we process over 3 million Visa and Mastercard credit cards. In doing so, we stand close by our customers' side - with experience, commitment and vision.

Join us
At UBS Card Center we embrace flexible working arrangements and offer different working models such as part-time, job-sharing and hybrid working. Our purpose-driven culture and global infrastructure help us connect and collaborate in agile ways to meet all our business needs. A working environment driven by innovation, digitalization, new mobile payment methods and customer experience awaits you.

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Doctoral Position in Soft and Musculoskeletal Robotics, Biohybrid Systems, and Robot Learning

The Soft Robotics Lab within the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich is inviting applications for open doctoral positions. Our lab's goal is to build, model, and control robots in a fundamentally different way, so that they become more flexible, dexterous, capable, and adapt better to their environment. We work along four directions: soft and musculoskeletal robotics, biohybrid living systems, dexterous manipulation and learning, and simulation for embodied AI. We are looking for exceptional researchers in any of them.

We do not hire against a narrow project description. We hire people who will define their own. Tell us which of our directions you want to push, and why you are the person to push it.

Project background

Today's robots are mostly rigid, fragile, and a world apart from the agility and resilience of biological bodies. Our bet is that the next generation of robots will be soft, musculoskeletal, and in part alive. They will be built to make contact with the real world rather than to avoid it. We pursue this across four directions, and a strong candidate will find a home in one of them and borrow from the others.

Soft and musculoskeletal robotics. We build bodies from compliant structures, bones, joints, and tendon-like actuation. Our electrohydraulic musculoskeletal leg jumps, moves fast, and adapts to terrain at roughly 1.2% of the energy a motor-driven leg needs (Nature Communications, 2024). Our low-voltage HASEL actuators run near 1100 V, are safe to touch, and work untethered and underwater (Science Advances, 2024). We recently extended these muscles to full antagonistic motion ranges (ICRA 2025) and to a sensorless, inherently compliant anthropomorphic hand driven entirely by electrohydraulic actuation (IROS 2026).

Biohybrid living systems. We grow engineered muscle and use it to actuate machines. We bioprinted multicellular muscle-tendon units that transmit force along a real musculoskeletal path (Science Advances, 2025), embedded sensors directly into muscle for closed-loop control of proprioceptive biohybrid robots (Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2025), and established functional volumetric bioprinting with xolography (Advanced Materials, 2026). Co-optimized volumetric muscle designs for large dynamic deformations are in press at Nature Communications (Balciunaite et al., 2026). The same fabrication line reaches clinical work: with University Hospital Zurich we printed implantable reinforced cardiac tissue patches (Advanced Materials, 2025).

Dexterous manipulation and learning. We build hands and the policies that run them. One of our initial hand designs is now commercialized through our spin-off Mimic Robotics. ORCA is our open-source, reliable, and cost-effective anthropomorphic hand for uninterrupted dexterous task learning (IROS 2025). On top of that hardware we work on cross-embodiment skill transfer through latent action diffusion (ICRA 2026) and on sample-efficient policy fine-tuning directly on the real robot. We also build controllable dexterous world models, high-resolution sensorized skin (ICRA 2024), and a benchmark of dexterity for anthropomorphic hands.

Simulation, fabrication, and embodied AI. Building these robots requires tools that did not exist. Vision-Controlled Jetting prints rigid skeletons, soft tissue, tendons, and sensors in one pass, including a full musculoskeletal hand and forearm (Nature, 2023). We close the sim-to-real gap with learned residual physics (RA-L, 2024, Best Paper Award), and we released SORS, a modular high-fidelity soft-robot simulator, at RoboSoft 2026.

Underwater and aerial systems run through all of this, from SoFi and tendon-driven swimmer digital twins to our open-source soft aerial manipulation platform (CoRL 2024).

Job Description
Depending on your direction, your work will emphasize different parts of the following. All of it happens in a lab where hardware, biology, and learning sit in the same room.

• You will take a research idea from concept to a working system: designing the architecture, building it, integrating sensing and control, and validating it through systematic real-world experiments
• Each design cycle feeds the next, so rapid prototyping, measurement, and iteration sit at the heart of every project
• Drawing inspiration from biological musculoskeletal systems, you will engineer how bones, joints, tendons, and muscles can be recreated with compliant materials, artificial actuators, or living tissue, and how their interplay produces strength, dexterity, and robustness
• You will build robots that derive much of their capability from their embodiment, achieving rich, adaptive behavior with less reliance on complex centralized control
• If your focus is learning, you will develop control and perception methods that work on real, compliant, contact-rich hardware, not only in simulation, and you will help define the benchmarks that make such claims measurable
• If your focus is biohybrid systems, you will work in our biological laboratories at ETH, culturing and bioprinting tissue and turning it into a controllable actuator
• You will publish at the top venues in the field, release open-source hardware and code where it helps the community, and present your work internationally
• Close, day-to-day collaboration across our hardware, muscles, and machine learning teams is expected and is what makes this work possible

Profile

• You are extremely curious, highly motivated, greatly independent, and you want to make a real difference with your research
• You work best when you are in a team, you are respectful and thrive when you can collaborate with others and provide support

Through your prior experiences, you have ideally already shown your understanding and skills in:

• Master's degree in mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, computer science, materials science, bioengineering, or a closely related field
• Depth in at least one of: hands-on system building (CAD, 3D printing, machining, molding, electronics, robot integration), machine learning and control for real robots, soft or bio-inspired materials and actuators, tissue engineering and biofabrication, or physics-based simulation
• A bias toward action: you like to build, test, break, and iterate quickly rather than stay purely in simulation
• Prior research experience demonstrated through a Master's thesis, research project, or equivalent work, with strong written and spoken English
• Strong motivation for interdisciplinary, experimental research and the curiosity to develop new skills throughout the Doctorate
• A collaborative, supportive mindset and the drive to make a real difference with your research
• A clear idea of what you would want to work on with us, and why it matters

Nobody arrives with all of this. Show us the few things you are already good at and the appetite to learn the rest.

We offer

• Your job with impact: Become part of ETH Zurich, which not only supports your professional development, but also actively contributes to positive change in society
• You can expect numerous benefits, such as public transport season tickets and car sharing, a wide range of sports offered by the ASVZ, childcare and attractive pension benefits
• A world-class lab with state-of-the-art fabrication facilities, our own biological laboratories, dexterous robotic hands and arms, and compute for large-scale learning
• A multidisciplinary team of mechanical engineers, materials scientists, biologists, and machine learning researchers, embedded in the broader robotics ecosystem at ETH Zurich
• Strong ties to industry and to our spin-offs, and support for turning your research into something that leaves the lab

Working, teaching and research at ETH Zurich

We value diversity and sustainability

In 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 As a Single Merged PDF Document, Titled With Your Last Name And Initials As Well As The Application Date (for Example, 20230701_DoeJane_application) In The Following Order

• Cover letter with a description of your research achievements and research interests, naming the research direction you want to pursue with us
• Detailed CV
• Transcripts of all degrees (English)
• Names and contact information of at least three references
• Representative published research work (e.g., papers and thesis)

Further information about our group can be found on our website. Questions regarding the position should be directed to Federica Poltronieri, federica.poltronieri@srl.ethz.ch (no applications).

Please note that we exclusively accept applications submitted through our online application portal. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered.

The application deadline is on a rolling basis, we have several Doctoral Positions to fill in the next months. Start date by agreement, but not later than mid next year.

About ETH Zürich
ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology. We are renowned for our excellent education, cutting-edge fundamental research and direct transfer of new knowledge into society. Over 30,000 people from more than 120 countries find our university to be a place that promotes independent thinking and an environment that inspires excellence. Located in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, we work together to develop solutions for the global challenges of today and tomorrow.