Robotics Jobs in Reading

• East Molesey
• £50,000 – £55,000 pa
• Permanent

Designs, develops, tests and supports control software on programmable and supervisory platforms, optimising applications for HVAC and refrigeration systems to improve performance and energy efficiency. Works directly with customers and collaborates with UK and international engineering teams, troubleshooting complex control and networking issues.

Structured Text · Modbus · BACnet +7

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops and tests control policies for a quadruped robot with shape-morphing limbs, enabling tasks like ladder climbing and non-prehensile manipulation. The role combines bespoke morphing hardware upkeep with simulation work in IsaacLab or MuJoCo, within the Protean Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute.

IsaacLab · MuJoCo

• Longcot
• On-site
• £40,000 – £65,000 pa

Hands-on role covering the full lifecycle of control system projects, from design and development through testing and commissioning. You'll program PLCs and build SCADA/HMI applications using platforms such as Ignition and WinCC, troubleshoot existing automation systems, and support installation and commissioning on customer sites. Office-based with roughly 25% travel and an early Friday finish.

Siemens TIA Portal · Ignition · WinCC +3

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Designs and controls robots built from tensegrity structures, co-optimising their designs and control policies in simulation and building and testing physical hardware. Based in the Protean Robotics Lab within the Department of Engineering Science, the role also involves supervising undergraduate and graduate students on the project.

IsaacLab · MuJoCo

• Camberley
• On-site
• £45,000 – £50,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on field role installing, wiring and commissioning electrical control panels and PLC equipment at customer sites across the South of England. Involves fault-finding, reading electrical drawings and working alongside project and controls engineers, with training provided to build PLC and controls engineering skills.

PLC

• Oxford
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Senior

Designs and builds robotics software covering autonomous navigation, perception, motion planning and control, taking projects from concept through simulation, testing and deployment. Works closely with hardware, electronics and mechanical engineers, mentors junior staff and contributes to software architecture and technology strategy. Requires C++/Python, ROS/ROS2 and real-time robotics simulation experience.

ROS · ROS2 · Gazebo +1

• Brentford
• On-site
• £70,000 – £95,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on role designing and deploying production-grade computer vision systems using CNNs and Vision Transformers, spanning model architecture, training pipelines and optimisation for cloud and edge. You'll translate recent AI research into reliable products for defence and security, collaborating with engineers, researchers and customers.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Git +6

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Work across a small frontier-technology team building AVIS, an orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data such as text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds for decision-making in defence and national security. The role spans digital and physical AI systems, including ORION, STRIDER and BARBARIAN, with broad ownership and direct influence on the business.

AVIS · ORION · STRIDER +1