Research Engineer (m/f/d)

Research Engineer, Manipulation Data & Teleoperation — Zurich

This role owns the data generation layer of Sereact's VLA stack: teleoperation systems and data collection infrastructure that feed Cortex, built from our Zurich research hub.

Sereact is a Series B embodied-AI company. Cortex, our VLA model, is deployed in live warehouse robotic cells across the EU and US. Zurich is our newest research hub, focused on the manipulation and control problems that sit underneath Cortex.

This is a Research Engineer position. It is scoped to the data generation layer of the VLA stack: teleoperation hardware and software, retargeting pipelines that map human demonstrations onto robot hands, and the data collection infrastructure that feeds Cortex. It requires building the systems that produce the data those models train on, and working closely with the training team on what that data needs to look like.

Build and operate teleoperation systems for dexterous manipulation, including retargeting algorithms that map human hand and arm motion onto robot end-effectors

Design and maintain scalable, UMI-style data collection hardware and software that other engineers at Sereact rely on

Benchmark control and retargeting approaches using rigorous, human-factors-informed methodology

Instrument and support the physical robots deployed in the Zurich hub, including day-to-day work on the control stack

Work with the model-training team to define what data they