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Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Engineer

Epfl

lausanne, vaud, Switzerland Full-time June 24, 2026
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Opportunity Description

Research challenge

The Research Challenge: AI training costs are exploding, largely due to energy and bandwidth inefficiencies in current electrical datacenters.

Our group is developing a novel Optical Circuit Switched (OCS) architecture that drastically reduces power and latency.

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher /Research Engineer with a background in Embedded Systems and Low-Level Programming to design the control logic that powers this new hybrid network.

Your code will directly enable the next generation of energy-efficient AI clusters.

Project scope

  • You will bridge the gap between custom optical hardware and standard AI software stacks .

  • Unlike typical high-level networking roles, this project requires bare-metal intervention, programming the firmware and drivers that decide how and when data mov...

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