Robotics Engineer

Senior Robotics Engineer

Location: Bristol (On-Site)

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Salary: Dependent on Experience (DOE)

The Opportunity

We're working with an innovative robotics company developing advanced autonomous systems for real-world industrial applications. As the business continues to scale, they are looking to appoint a Senior Robotics Engineer to help build and deploy the next generation of robotic capabilities.

This is a hands-on role focused on real robots operating in real environments. You'll work alongside a highly experienced multidisciplinary team, helping develop robust, production-ready systems that combine perception, planning, control, manipulation and autonomous behaviours.

The Role

As a Senior Robotics Engineer, you'll take ownership of challenging robotics problems and help transform prototypes into reliable capabilities deployed on physical robotic platforms.

You'll contribute across a sophisticated robotics stack and collaborate closely with AI, software, hardware and systems engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy robotics software for advanced robotic systems
• Integrate software across perception, planning, control and behaviour layers
• Debug complex issues spanning hardware, software and networking
• Improve system reliability, maintainability and observability
• Develop new robotic capabilities and autonomous behaviours
• Support deployment and testing on physical robotic platforms
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technical leadership
• Mentor engineers and uphold high software engineering standards

Requirements

• Strong C++ and Python development experience
• Extensive ROS 2 experience
• Experience developing and debugging real-world robotic systems
• Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent systems integration and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to deployment

Desirable Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be highly beneficial:

• ros2_control
• EtherCAT and hardware integration
• Manipulation and motion planning
• Whole-body control
• Calibration and robot bring-up
• State estimation and sensor fusion
• Behaviour trees and task execution
• Robotics networking and distributed systems
• Reliability engineering and diagnostics
• Safety systems and fault recovery

What's on Offer

• Salary dependent on experience
• Equity opportunities
• Private healthcare
• Conference and training budget
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge robotics technology
• Highly collaborative engineering culture
• Direct impact on products deployed in real-world environments