Robotics Jobs in Woking

Autodiscovery · Wantage

Lead the design and deployment of autonomous robotic systems, owning software architecture across perception, planning and control. Work spans prototyping, simulation and field testing, integrating with hardware teams while mentoring engineers and shaping technical roadmaps. Requires depth in C++, ROS2, SLAM and real-time systems.

Flarebright · Bicester · £39,000 – £49,000 pa

Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Contribute to a project designing and controlling robots built from tensegrity structures, exploiting shape change and nonlinear mechanics to unlock locomotion and manipulation skills. Co-optimize designs and control policies via simulation and build and test tensegrity hardware, while supervising undergraduate and graduate students.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Develops musculoskeletal models and simulations of human-robot interaction to guide the design of wearable robots delivering assistive forces and joint torques. Examines how robotic assistance affects movement, muscle activity and joint loading, collaborating with experimental researchers to validate models against motion, force and EMG data.

Imperial College London · London · £50,733 – £59,484 pa

Lead research on dexterous, high-DoF manipulation policies and robot foundation models such as vision-language-action models, learned from human demonstrations. Work with a state-of-the-art platform of Sharpa Wave dexterous hands and UR7e arms, developing novel algorithms and deploying learned policies on real hardware. Collaborate with experts in robotics, computer vision and machine learning, targeting top-tier conferences.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Develop wearable soft robotic devices that deliver assistive forces and joint torques for upper-body movement, combining soft actuation, device fabrication and experimental biomechanics. Design and test actuators, characterise joint assistance and load transfer, and collaborate with biomechanical modelling and robotics researchers. Fixed-term post funded by UKRI within RADlab at the Department of Engineering Science.