Robotics Jobs in London

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Assemble electro-mechanical assemblies from CAD and work instructions, route and repair complex harnesses, and build compute assemblies using ESD techniques. Configure and test sensors, actuators and communication devices via command-line tooling, diagnose faults with multimeters and oscilloscopes, and rework through-hole and surface-mount PCBs. Working in a fast-moving workshop alongside engineers on the HMND-01 humanoid platform.

Git · GitLab · GitHub +5

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent · Shift work

Operate, maintain and optimise a humanoid robotics fleet and AI data-collection system, ensuring maximum uptime through monitoring, preventive maintenance and rapid troubleshooting. Configure robots and sensors, run data-collection experiments, and manage dataset labelling and storage for imitation learning. Permanent night shift (10:30pm-7:00am) with occasional travel.

ROS · Linux · Python +1

• London
• On-site
• £45,925 – £60,492 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Teach and develop robotics engineering and AI modules across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, covering robot modelling, motion planning, biologically inspired robotics, digital systems and mechanical design. Includes module leadership, project supervision and curriculum development, with research expected in the field. Based at the Roehampton Vale engineering campus, joining a department focused on hands-on, industry-relevant learning.

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Builds robust, reusable test automation across component, integration and system levels, spanning hardware and embedded software boundaries. Owns design and delivery of automated verification for an embedded software area, creating open-loop and closed-loop HIL replay, reliability and fault-injection tests, and optimising Buildkite CI/CD workflows while leading root-cause investigations with cross-functional teams.

dSPACE · Vector · Xylon +7

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the Platform Integration team within Robot Software, owning early vehicle software integration, drive-by-wire and vehicle-facing drivers. Manage engineers, hiring, roadmap and delivery while guiding architecture for reusable interfaces across vehicle variants and OEM programmes, balancing programme needs with reliability and tooling investments.

CAN · Automotive Ethernet

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Builds AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations, developing machine learning models, optimisation algorithms and operational simulations. Takes high-impact models from prototype to monitored production, sets technical direction and mentors data scientists while working with engineers, product managers and retail partners.

BigQuery · OR-Tools · SimPy

• London
• £80,000 – £150,000 pa
• Permanent

Research, develop and implement reinforcement learning policies for humanoid robotic control, building simulation environments and working on simulation-to-real transfer with domain randomisation. Collaborate with robotics, controls and software engineers to deploy and validate trained policies on physical hardware, covering motion control and manipulation.

PyTorch · NVIDIA Isaac Sim · Isaac Lab +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Owns the software engineering that brings data science and ML products into live production for the Autoplanner team, building AI-powered planning systems across global warehouses and last-mile assets. Writes typed, well-tested Python (with some Java for OSP integration), builds APIs and data contracts, manages AWS deployments and CI/CD, and packages, serves and monitors ML models. Partners closely with data scientists and shares on-call support.

AWS · GCP · Ocado Smart Platform

• London
• On-site
• £50,733 – £59,484 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

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.

PyTorch · ROS · Sharpa Wave +1

• London
• Hybrid
• £45,399 – £59,484 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop conversational agents and social robots for dementia care within the Biomechatronics Laboratory, combining NLP, machine learning, signal processing and mechatronic fabrication. The role involves planning research, collaborating with psychiatrists, neurologists and engineers, and running human-robot interface experiments mapping voice activity to robotic engagement.

Python · C · C++

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Designs end-to-end AI solutions from sensor to user interface, training and productionising deep learning models for cloud and resource-constrained edge devices. Works directly with customers to understand mission problems, integrates models into enterprise software, and addresses training data, ethics and model explainability. An early AI team member shaping how autonomy and AI are exploited across products and internal processes.

• London
• £90,000 – £110,000 pa
• Senior

Designs and optimises multi-threaded C++ pipelines for image processing, computer vision and rendering, tuning algorithms for spatial analysis, sensor alignment and scene reconstruction. Uses parallel computing and GPU acceleration to hit strict performance targets, builds cross-platform production software, influences architecture and joins a support rota.

C++17 · Git · CMake +5

• London
• £53,600 – £80,400 pa
• Senior

Deliver technical training and hands-on workshops on the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system to surgeons, first assistants and OR staff across general surgery, urology and gynaecology. Based in London but travelling around 75% of the time to a training centre in Belgium, working with sales, clinical and medical affairs colleagues. Requires Portuguese and English fluency.

Hugo RAS

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead · manages people

Owns end-to-end squad delivery for a lab automation platform, leading senior engineers while staying hands-on in the code. Work spans a deterministic execution engine, constraint solving, durable recovery, and AI agents gated by simulation, running on Kubernetes edge clusters with Go, Python, NATS JetStream and OR-Tools.

Kubernetes · Go · Python +5

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead · manages people

Owns the interface layer of a lab automation platform, spanning React SPAs, GraphQL APIs, SDKs, CLIs and an MCP agent surface, with live state streamed from robots and instruments. Leads a product engineering squad hands-on, shaping architecture and delivery alongside Product and Design. AI-native, generated UI and high-stakes failure surfaces are central.

React · TypeScript · GraphQL +7