Working Student Software Engineering

Job description

Intro For this position we are looking for students or recent graduates in Zürich , working hybrid at the ETH Student Project House (SPH) and remotely. Nairon GmbH is a Swiss startup building AI voice agents that answer and make phone calls for businesses. Our platform runs real-time conversations over the phone and on the web, connected to our customers' telephony and business tools. We value clear communication, thoughtful engineering, and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Join us as we continue to develop tools that make a difference. We are looking for a Working Student (30–60%) who wants to work on real production systems next to their studies. We are flexible on the duration of the employment. Tasks As a Working Student at Nairon GmbH, you will work with our team on one or more of these areas, depending on your interests and skills: Voice AI: turn-taking, latency measurements, LLM prompting and tool calls, and evaluating speech models (STT and TTS). Voice model training: training foundational speech models (TTS and STT) on GPUs: data collection and preparation, training runs, fine-tuning for German and Swiss-German voices, and evaluation. Realtime backend: Python services around our LiveKit -based media platform, messaging and integrations with customer systems. Web and mobile: features in our Next.js / React / TypeScript web application and our Expo / React Native app. Platform: Docker , Kubernetes , monitoring and the tooling that keeps our services running. Commercial and tech sales: preparing demos and pilot agents, answering customers' technical questions, market and competitor research, and supporting offers and partner conversations. Building test calls, benchmarks and small internal tools, and writing down what you learn. Requirements Experience: Currently enrolled at ETH Zürich or another university or Fachhochschule, or graduated recently, in computer science, electrical engineering, data science, business and engineering (e.g. MTEC, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) or a related field. First project or work experience is a plus, not a must. Technical Skills: Required: Programming in Python or TypeScript ; for the engineering areas, good fundamentals in Git, APIs and debugging. For commercial work: a solid technical understanding and the ability to explain technology to customers. Nice to have: Experience with LLMs, speech or audio proce…