Robotics Jobs in London

• London
• On-site
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Leads Humanoid's AI research and engineering function as a player-coach, spending at least half of the first year on direct technical work: designing Transformer-based models and experiments, reviewing code, inspecting data, debugging training, and examining robot rollouts. Owns the research roadmap, data strategy, and offline/real-world evaluation systems, and builds a small team of researchers and engineers.

PyTorch · ROS 2 · Vision Transformers +5

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

Owns end-to-end planning and execution of a portfolio of software and hardware projects within a humanoid robot new product introduction program, accountable for scope, schedule, cost and process. Coordinates deeply cross-functional teams across Systems, AI/ML, Firmware, Mechanical, Supply Chain and more, spanning sites in Boston, Vancouver and San Diego. Requires strong technical judgment, systems thinking and the ability to clear blockers and manage risks across distributed teams.

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead an ambitious research agenda at the intersection of LLMs, VLMs, VLAs and embodied AI, exploring how world knowledge, memory and reasoning improve physical-world decision-making. Stay hands-on developing architectures, training and post-training large-scale models, while mentoring researchers and shaping technical direction across London and Sunnyvale.

PyTorch

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Post-train and scale GAIA-family large video diffusion world models to generate multimodal synthetic driving data, running generation pipelines across tens of thousands of segments and optimising GPU inference. Sits between ML research and engineering, landing synthetic data into the same training stack as real driving data and measuring its impact on driving-model performance.

GAIA · GPU · KV Cache

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

Hands-on technical leadership role owning end-to-end product engineering for an AI-native lab automation platform, spanning architecture, delivery and team mentoring. You lead staff engineers and their squads, partner with product, design, data and AI, and embed AI-native, automation-first ways of working. Requires 3 days per week on site in Angel, London.

LINQ

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds core agentic product features, engineering the harness to deploy LLMs that take actions in controlled, compliant environments. Works across the stack from backend to UI, deploying in cloud and on-premise, with optional perception work using object detection and multi-modal models like CLIP and CLAP on real-time sensor streams.

CLIP · CLAP

• London
• £30 – £40 ph
• Contract

Building and wiring advanced robotic manufacturing machinery on a short-term contract, covering control panel installation, 3-phase power and control cabling, and safety circuits. The role involves working from electrical schematics, plus continuity testing and fault finding on automated equipment within an automation and manufacturing business.

PLC · Servo Drives · VFDs +1

• London
• On-site
• £45,000 – £70,000 pa

Design electrical systems for robotic manufacturing machinery used in homebuilding automation, owning design packages from schematics through build, testing and commissioning. Work alongside mechanical, controls and robotics engineers on PLC-controlled equipment, sensors, drives and safety systems, with on-site fault-finding and technical support.

EPLAN P8 · EtherNet/IP · EtherCAT +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