Research jobs in Zürich

  • 206 open roles
  • 48 posted in the last 7 days
  • 105 employers hiring
  • Updated 17 Oct 2026

Assistant Physician

Praxis am Bahnhof
GermanJunior20%

What you would do

  • Actively co-manage patients under supervision in an interdisciplinary practice.
  • Gain practical experience across various specialties including laboratory, X-ray, and ultrasound.
  • Work in primary care (private/general practice) with patient-oriented care.

Skills

Patient CareLaboratory DiagnosticsX-ray ImagingUltrasoundPrimary Care

Electrophysiology/Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Nurse

Hirslanden Klinik Birshof
GermanMid-level

What you would do

  • Care and monitoring of patients in the electrophysiology and cardiac catheterization laboratory.
  • Assisting with cardiac catheter and electrophysiology examinations and interventions, as well as angiological interventions of peripheral vessels.
  • Participation in the implantation of pacemakers.
  • Performing hemodynamic measurements and ensuring complete documentation and service recording.
  • Taking on administrative tasks in daily laboratory operations.

Skills

Cardiac CatheterizationElectrophysiologyPacemaker ImplantationHemodynamic MonitoringAngiography

Principal Researcher in SoC Architecture

Huawei
EnglishSenior17 days ago

What you would do

  • Design and validate efficient system/hardware/software technologies to meet product requirements.
  • Explore new computing architecture approaches aligned with emerging technologies and system constraints.
  • Analyze architectural trade-offs in coordination with cross-functional domain experts.
  • Recognize technology trends and propose novel technologies to improve performance, power, area, and flexibility.
  • Participate in strategy and business plan discussions.
  • Cooperate with local industry and academic resources and independently develop and operate cooperation projects.

Skills

SoC ArchitectureHigh-Performance ComputingLTE/5G NRMicroarchitectureMemory Hierarchy Design

Head of Research and Development

Swiss Federal university for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET
German or French or Italian or EnglishLead16 days ago

What you would do

  • Lead the Research and Development division strategically and academically, with responsibility for operations, staff and finances.
  • Shape development in line with SFUVET's strategic priorities and advance forward-looking research areas.
  • Safeguard academic quality, promote high-quality publishing, interdisciplinary approaches and methodological diversity.
  • Secure and deliver competitive and externally funded research projects.
  • Support early-career researchers and foster professional and academic development.
  • Strengthen knowledge and innovation transfer between research, VET practice and education policy.

Skills

Research LeadershipExternal Funding AcquisitionAcademic PublishingVET ResearchEducation Policy Analysis

Courier

Analytica Medizin
German3 days ago

What you would do

  • Collecting sample materials including emergencies from doctor's practices, hospitals, and nursing homes in compliance with hygiene and temperature regulations.
  • Delivering customer orders and practice consumables by company car.
  • Delivering results and distributing mailings.
  • Maintaining and cleaning the vehicle.
  • Working shifts Monday to Friday (7:00–20:00) with one Saturday shift per month (7:00–13:00).

Skills

Courier ServiceSample CollectionTemperature-Controlled TransportHygiene ComplianceDriving License (Manual & Automatic)

AI Compiler Formal Verification Intern

NVIDIA
EnglishJunior12 days ago

What you would do

  • Research and implement formal methods to verify AI compilers, including compiler features, passes, IRs, sub-graphs, and lowerings.
  • Explore and apply AI, formal verification, semantic verification, and static analysis techniques to build solutions that verify AI compilers for human and agentic-use cases.

Skills

Formal VerificationPythonC++LeanSMT Solvers

Doctoral Researcher in Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

ETH Zurich
EnglishJunior9 days ago

What you would do

  • Work with a state-of-the-art pulse EPR spectrometer with arbitrary phase and amplitude control.
  • Develop new pulse sequences with improved sensitivity and higher information content.
  • Apply pulse sequences to challenging systems from inorganic chemistry and catalysis, as well as organic radicals.
  • Develop a new method based on optical hyperpolarisation.
  • Perform spectroscopic experiments and spin-dynamics simulations.
  • Depending on background, also conduct chemical synthesis, catalysis, and quantum-chemical calculations.

Skills

Pulse EPR SpectroscopySpin DynamicsOptical HyperpolarisationPulse Sequence DevelopmentSpin-Dynamics Simulation

PhD Intern: Legumes

Agroscope
German or French or EnglishJunior8 days ago

What you would do

  • Participate in field trials and harvest of lentils with cereals.
  • Collect data on plant growth, weed pressure, pests, diseases, and soil samples.
  • Prepare samples for laboratory analyses of quality and seed health.
  • Assist in organizing a field day for farmers and agricultural advisors.

Skills

Field TrialsCrop HarvestingPlant Growth MonitoringWeed Pressure AssessmentPest & Disease Monitoring

Internship Computer Vision & Machine Learning Research - LLM Efficiency

Apple
EnglishJunior17 days ago

What you would do

  • Identify promising research opportunities.
  • Review state-of-the-art methods and relevant literature.
  • Craft novel approaches.
  • Implement them as code prototypes.
  • Plan and run large-scale experiments across multi-node, multi-GPU systems.
  • Write a paper and see it through to submission.

Skills

Machine Learning ResearchLLM Inference OptimizationSpeculative DecodingQuantization & CompressionMulti-GPU Systems

Medical Practice Assistant

Kinderspital Zürich
GermanJunior30–50%8 days ago

What you would do

  • Prepare and assist in the care of emergency practice patients.
  • Manage outpatient follow-up consultations.
  • Assist and perform therapies.
  • Carry out diagnostic tasks such as pre-analytical work, sample collection, and occasional laboratory analyses.
  • Perform plaster work and apply orthoses.
  • Handle service recording and minor administrative activities.

Skills

Medical Practice Assistant (MPA EFZ)Sample CollectionPre-analytical WorkLaboratory AnalysesPlaster Work

Languages required

All roles45%
EnglishGermanGerman + EnglishOther

Industries

  • Pharma104
  • Education90
  • Technology85
  • Healthcare57
  • Manufacturing53
  • Consulting15

Employers

  • ETH Zürich27
  • University of Zürich21
  • Huawei10
  • Analytica Medizinische Laboratorien9
  • Agroscope6
  • University Hospital Zürich6

Skills

  • Python42
  • PyTorch19
  • Academic Publishing16
  • MS Office15
  • Machine Learning15
  • Computer Vision12

Seniority and workload

  • Junior49%
  • Mid-level18%
  • Senior28%
  • Lead4%
  • 100% only17%
  • Range up to 100%38%
  • Part-time44%

New roles per week

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Questions

How many research jobs are open in Zürich?

206 open roles, 48 of them posted in the last 7 days.

Who is hiring?

ETH Zürich, University of Zürich, Huawei, Analytica Medizinische Laboratorien have the most open roles.

Which languages are required?

English is the most common requirement (45% of roles).

How we count

Open research roles in the Zürich area, checked daily. Workload is taken from the posting text where stated. Recruitment agencies are excluded from the role sample.

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