Doctoral student — 30 open positions across Switzerland

  • Postdoctoral fellowship on translational research in daylighting for human health and well-being — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Field and laboratory technician:in (m/f/d) — ETH Zürich · Zürich
  • Animal welfare officer:r (m/f/d) — ETH Zürich · Zürich
  • Postdoctoral Researcher - Forest Management and Economics — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Doctoral student: in risk communication and AI — ETH Zürich · Zürich
  • Laboratory engineer: in power electronics and drive systems (m/f/d) — ETH Zürich · Zürich
  • Applied Physicist for ATLAS Trigger Reconstruction (EP-ATL-OSW-2026-124-GRAP) — CERN · Geneva, GENEVA, Switzerland
  • L0 Muon Trigger Development (SW&FW) (EP-ATL-TRG-2026-122-GRAP) — CERN · Geneva, GENEVA, Switzerland
  • Innovation Catalyst — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Group Lead Advanced Mechatronic Systems — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Professor in Applied Microeconomics (open rank) — Etat de Fribourg · Fribourg
  • Assistant to the Academic Service for Doctoral Training, Continuing Education and Exchanges (90%) — EPFL · Lausanne
  • Postdoctoral researcher in fly neuroscience and robotics — EPFL · Lausanne
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Biotechnology of non-Saccharomyces Yeast — ETH Zürich · Lausanne
  • Ordinary professorship or tenure-track professorship for dogmatics and ecumenical theology — Etat de Fribourg · Fribourg
  • Ordinary Professor of the Old Testament in French — Etat de Fribourg · Fribourg
  • Postdoc Position in Quantitative Finance at EPFL — EPFL · Lausanne
  • PhD position in Automated Laboratory for Plastic Recycling — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Postdoc position in towards a circular plastics economy within the planetary boundaries — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • PhD position in predicting Thermodynamics and Processes for Circular Carbon Plastics — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • PhD position - Experimental Study on Jet Multiphase Dynamics of Pelton turbines — EPFL · Lausanne
  • Postdoctoral Researcher – Iterative Learning Control of Industrial Systems — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Postdoctoral Positions in Computational Neuroscience & AI — EPFL · Genève
  • Postdoc in ML-Based Co-Design at EPFL — EPFL · Lausanne
  • Postdoc in Assessment and Adaptation of Building Components for Extended Service Lifespans — EPFL · Fribourg
  • PhD position on engineering of machine perfusion platforms for organ and tissue culture — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • Administrative assistant — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • PhD Position in AI for Materials Modeling — ETH Zürich · Zurich
  • PhD positions in AI for Science (Health, Biology) — EPFL · Lausanne
More about this search for cross-border applicants

This page lists active openings across Switzerland tied to the search "Doctoral student": the 30 listings below are filtered from our open-position index and sorted from newest to oldest.

Employers hiring for "Doctoral student" include ETH Zürich, EPFL, Etat de Fribourg. Recurring locations are Zurich, Zürich, Geneva, GENEVA, Switzerland, Fribourg: factor in commute time and crossing type (Brogeda, Stabio, Ponte Tresa) before picking one opportunity over another. For Italian cross-border applicants, every role requires the G permit filed by the Swiss employer — it is free of charge and typically issued in 2-6 weeks after contract signature.

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