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 BahnhofGermanJunior20%
Assistant Physician
Praxis am Bahnhof
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 BirshofGermanMid-level
Electrophysiology/Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Nurse
Hirslanden Klinik Birshof
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
HuaweiEnglishSenior17 days ago
Principal Researcher in SoC Architecture
Huawei
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 SFUVETGerman or French or Italian or EnglishLead16 days ago
Head of Research and Development
Swiss Federal university for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET
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 MedizinGerman3 days ago
Courier
Analytica Medizin
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
NVIDIAEnglishJunior12 days ago
AI Compiler Formal Verification Intern
NVIDIA
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 ZurichEnglishJunior9 days ago
Doctoral Researcher in Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
ETH Zurich
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
AgroscopeGerman or French or EnglishJunior8 days ago
PhD Intern: Legumes
Agroscope
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
AppleEnglishJunior17 days ago
Internship Computer Vision & Machine Learning Research - LLM Efficiency
Apple
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 ZürichGermanJunior30–50%8 days ago
Medical Practice Assistant
Kinderspital Zürich
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
Specialist Nurse in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Universitätsspital ZürichGermanMid-level9 days ago
Specialist Nurse in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Universitätsspital Zürich
What you would do
- Provide patient-oriented care to cardiology and emergency patients with acute coronary syndrome.
- Work independently on hemodynamics (Philips) and provide sterile assistance in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
- Perform pericardial punctures and other high-acute emergency interventions.
- Support the full range of possible interventions in a cardiac catheterization laboratory, including CTO, intravascular imaging, Impella devices, and right heart catheterization with stress and shunt determinations.
- Participate in specific cardiology further training, international workshops, and congresses.
Skills
Cardiac CatheterizationHemodynamics (Philips)Sterile AssistancePericardial PunctureIntravascular Imaging
Trainee Ecology Advisor
TESTEXGerman + EnglishJunior100%Hybrid
Trainee Ecology Advisor
TESTEX
What you would do
- Awarding product certifications for textiles and accessories according to OEKO-TEX® and creating investigation reports.
- Sharing responsibility for the entire certification process.
- Deciding on the analytical and textile-technological scope of product controls.
- Acting as a hub between external offices and laboratory departments, including quality controls.
- Assisting with general administrative tasks.
Skills
OEKO-TEX® CertificationInvestigation Report WritingTextile TestingQuality ControlMS Office
Research Assistant
Universität ZürichGermanJunior9 days ago
Research Assistant
Universität Zürich
What you would do
- Participate in research, publication, and consulting projects in intellectual property and competition law.
- Support teaching and administrative chair activities.
- Actively participate in URPP (H2R) research topics.
Skills
Intellectual Property LawCompetition LawEconomic LawAcademic ResearchLegal Publishing
Medical Practice Assistant
Analytica Medizinische LaboratorienGermanJunior3 days ago
Medical Practice Assistant
Analytica Medizinische Laboratorien
What you would do
- Performing blood draws in the own outpatient clinic and at the external clinic Lengg.
- Handling administrative tasks such as reception, support, telephone and email, and appointment scheduling.
- Data processing and order entry in the laboratory system.
- Recording and providing sample material.
- Creating orders, cost estimates, and invoices.
Skills
Blood DrawsLaboratory System Data EntryOrder ProcessingSample HandlingInvoicing
Research Associate
Das Kunsthaus ZürichGerman + EnglishJunior80%
Research Associate
Das Kunsthaus Zürich
What you would do
- Research the history of the Emil Bührle collection, including French Impressionism highlights and selected works.
- Collaborate with the Provenance Research department and the Collection Research Associate.
- Document and archive the exhibition project.
- Develop and mediate the exhibition's content.
- Write and proofread exhibition texts such as wall texts and object labels, coordinating with Collection and Research Management and the external curator.
- Coordinate content alignment between the core team and curators.
Skills
Art HistoryFrench ImpressionismProvenance ResearchNazi-Looted Art ResearchJewish Collection History
Medical Practice Assistant
Hausarztpraxis PlusGermanJunior
Medical Practice Assistant
Hausarztpraxis Plus
What you would do
- Perform laboratory diagnostics.
- Conduct digital X-ray imaging.
- Perform EKGs and LUFU.
- Handle telephone and consultation room assistance.
- Assist with emergency patients.
- Perform minor surgical procedures.
Skills
Laboratory DiagnosticsDigital X-rayEKGLUFUMinor Surgical Procedures
Global Head of R&D
Mettler ToledoEnglishLead
Global Head of R&D
Mettler Toledo
What you would do
- Own the global R&D strategy and technology roadmap, aligning innovation priorities, technology investments, and organizational capabilities with business objectives.
- Lead a global R&D organization spanning hardware development, software development, systems engineering, systems testing, and project management across multiple locations.
- Drive development of innovative hardware and software solutions that strengthen market position and enable sustainable business growth.
- Champion a culture of innovation and engineering excellence, evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends.
- Ensure effective execution of global product development programs, balancing product lifecycle management with agility to accelerate time-to-market.
- Partner with Strategic Product Groups to align R&D roadmaps, investment priorities, and business objectives.
Skills
R&D StrategyTechnology RoadmappingLaboratory AutomationHardware DevelopmentSoftware Development
Head of Quality Control & Analytical Development
Senn ChemicalsGerman + EnglishLead100%
Head of Quality Control & Analytical Development
Senn Chemicals
What you would do
- Lead the Quality Control & Analytical Development area technically and in personnel matters.
- Organize and ensure efficient, productive, and safe laboratory operations.
- Prioritize and ensure GMP-compliant execution of pending laboratory work.
- Own QC activities, including analytical conclusions and status assignments.
- Develop and validate analytical methods according to ICH guidelines.
- Create and maintain QC/AD specification documents.
Skills
Analytical Method ValidationICH GuidelinesGMP ComplianceOOS Deviation ManagementCAPA
Research Scientist, Foundation Model
Laelaps AIEnglishSenior14 days ago
Research Scientist, Foundation Model
Laelaps AI
What you would do
- Own the research question at the centre of LEA, a foundation model of the physical world.
- Build a probabilistic site memory model capturing people, vehicles, robots, time, and weather patterns.
- Replace rule-based alerting with measured anomaly detection and evaluate it when incidents are rare.
- Post-train open world-model weights on aligned multi-sensor field sequences using JEPA-style latent-space prediction.
- Develop transferable representations across sites and domains.
- Choose research questions, design experiments, and decide what is true before it ships.
Skills
World ModelsSelf-Supervised LearningProbabilistic Spatio-Temporal ModellingAnomaly DetectionPyTorch
Data Scientist - Product Data
Digitec GalaxusEnglishMid-level
Data Scientist - Product Data
Digitec Galaxus
What you would do
- Designing, building and running ML workflows to build and improve the product catalog.
- Building evaluation sets and validation logic to catch quality problems before customers.
- Staying up-to-date with emerging technologies (e.g.
- LLM developments) to continuously enhance the solution.
- Improving team tooling so the next workflow is quicker to build.
- Running ML models over large datasets including prompt design, cost control and result validation.
Skills
PythonSQLAirflowDagsterBigQuery
Languages required
All roles
45%
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
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.