Job opportunities
Idiap Research Institute offers numerous opportunities in the field of Artificial Intelligence, all located in Martigny, Switzerland. Idiap offers competitive salaries and working conditions at all levels in a dynamic, multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer. We specifically encourage women and minorities to apply.
Applications and general inquiries regarding the availability of jobs, PhD positions, or internship opportunities are only possible via our online recruitment system below. Please use the "speculative" position postings to submit spontaneous applications. Internships are for a minimum period of 6 months and max of 18 months.
Avoid applying simultaneously to multiple positions and specify why you are applying to a specific position.
Directorship of Idiap
Idiap Fellowship Program for Female Researchers
Idiap Academic Visitor Program
Senior Researcher Positions
Group Leaders in AI applied to Industry and Societal Challenges (Cross-Research Group Leaders) F/H
PhD Student Open Positions
ASR & NLP for structured selection interviews
PhD in fairness and responsible datasets for face recognition
Multimodal gesture, visual attention an interaction activity recognition for autism diagnosis
PhD position in speech processing for motor speech disorders
Postdoc Open Positions
Postdoc Position on Explainable NLP for Biomedical Discovery
Postdoc in Explainable AI with applications to medical data
Postdoctoral position in automatic characterization of motor speech disorders
Research Internships
Internship position in domain of automatic speech recognition
Other Open Positions
Students for the applied Master in AI (full-time) – fixed term and paid position
Valais-Wallis Ambition initiative for PhDs and Postdocs
Administrative Internship Speculative Application
Speculative Application for the Biometrics Security and Privacy group
Speculative Application for the Biosignal Processing group
Speculative Application for the Computation, Cognition & Language group
Speculative Application for the Computational Bioimaging group
Speculative Application for the Energy Informatics group
Speculative Application for the Genomics and Health Informatics group
Speculative Application for the Machine Learning group
Speculative Application for the Natural Language Understanding group
Speculative Application for the Perception and Activity Understanding group
Speculative Application for the Reasoning & Explainable AI group
Speculative Application for the Robot Learning and Interaction group
Speculative Application for the Signal Processing for Communication group
Speculative Application for the Social Computing group
Speculative Application for the Speech and Audio Processing group
Why to work with us at Idiap?
Our institute offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a young, high-quality, dynamic, and multicultural research and academic environment, also well connected with the industrial world.
Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, Switzerland, offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the official working language.
For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, please go to http://www.idiap.ch/en/faq
Martigny seen from the Bâtiaz castle. Credit: Olivier Bruchez
What are our professional values?
Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny.
The Institute seeks to maintain a principle of open and multicultural competition on the basis of merit, providing equal opportunity for all candidates. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by law.
We value diversity and encourage underrepresented people to apply at Idiap. Women in particular can use our Female fellowship program for researcher.