Robotics Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

You'll design, build and operate shared infrastructure for model access, agent runtimes and observability, taking projects from problem definition through technical design, deployment and ongoing operation. Working closely with security, IT and engineering, you'll create governed access layers, reusable tooling and standards so teams can run AI agents in production without one-off infrastructure.

Kubernetes · MCP · RAG

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead the technical architecture and roadmap for onboard localisation, designing and productionising state-estimation systems that fuse GNSS, IMU and wheel odometry for accurate vehicle pose estimates. The role spans algorithm design, prototyping, validation and deployment on real-time vehicle platforms, with hands-on technical leadership and mentorship across robotics, calibration, controls and sensor teams.

GTSAM · Ceres · g2o +7

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

Leads end-to-end programme management for a bipedal humanoid robot fleet, from Alpha prototype through production, mass deployment and obsolescence. Acts as central coordination point across Product, Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Marketing, Business Development and Finance, owning programme plans, risk registers, stage gates and budget planning, while partnering with Engineering TPMs on locomotion, control and sensor workstreams.

PMP · PRINCE2

• Hatfield
• Hybrid
• Lead

Owns the vision, roadmap and adoption of Ocado's on-grid robotic picking capability, balancing pick success and damage data against operational risk. Works at the intersection of software, robotics and physical CFC operations, designing integration with manual packing and downstream workflows. Acts as the highest individual contributor in Product, a domain authority for Directors and VPs, driving cross-area strategy and global site launches.

Ocado Smart Platform · OGRP

• 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.

• Hatfield
• Hybrid
• Senior

Owns the product strategy and roadmap for the bot, battery and charger fleet that drives grid movement in Ocado's automated warehouses, working at the intersection of hardware, firmware, wireless and cloud software. Leads discovery, business cases and global rollout with engineering, manufacturing and partner teams, where small changes scale across every site.

Ocado Smart Platform · ASRS

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a small team iterating on Wayve's end-to-end L2 driving model, balancing hands-on Python coding and experiments with directing priorities. You diagnose on-road issues, root-cause them, and drive fixes through data recipes, model architecture and evaluation, working across teams on model and vehicle interface problems.

Python

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Builds and ships computer vision and 3D perception models for driver assistance, working across the full ML lifecycle from data generation to training, evaluation and iteration. The role spans latency-constrained on-car perception and large-scale offline work using lidar, maps and extra compute to power an auto-labelling data flywheel.

LiDAR

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Develops next-generation generative world models and planners such as GAIA, using diffusion, transformer and hybrid architectures to simulate complex driving environments for training, testing and deployment. The role spans ML research, multi-modal modelling and real-world deployment, with a focus on inference efficiency, closed-loop agent interaction and sim-to-real evaluation.

PyTorch · GAIA

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns validation strategy for ADAS and L2 autonomy functions, translating product, safety and regulatory requirements into test scenarios, metrics, coverage and acceptance criteria. Works hands-on with Python evaluation pipelines, simulation and SQL data analysis, and can be hired as a senior individual contributor or as a manager leading validation delivery.

Python · SQL

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead large-scale training and post-training of Gaia, Wayve's world model that predicts future driving video frames and runs closed-loop with the driving stack. Own model architecture and training-strategy decisions, push autoregressive generation toward longer stable rollouts, and make the model deployment-ready. Work across Research, Applications, Core Simulation Engineering and Cloud/Infrastructure, mentoring and setting technical direction.

PyTorch

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Owns end-to-end system architecture for the Wayve AI Driver across L0–L4, defining interface contracts, ECU and sensor requirements, and safety mechanisms. Leads technical alignment with OEMs, Tier 1s and partners, and supports integration, bring-up and system-level debugging on vehicles and HiL/ViL benches.

Linux · RTOS · HMI +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Director
• Permanent

Owns the architecture, strategy and integrity of safety cases for robotaxi and OEM ADAS products, defining top-level claims, argumentation structures and evidence traceability. Sits independently from Engineering and Product, providing senior expert challenge and assurance oversight across AI/ML, systems, validation and operational safety.

ISO 26262 · ISO 21448 · ISO/PAS 8800 +2

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds ground-truth datasets and computer vision classifiers that describe complex driving scenes across Wayve's data corpus, tackling road geometry, spatial relationships, road users and driving behaviour. Works with internal customers to define attributes and acceptance criteria, designs annotation tasks, and integrates classifiers with enrichment infrastructure for corpus analysis and scenario mining.

PyTorch · SQL · World Foundation Model

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Owns the autonomy performance measurement framework for a public-scale robotaxi deployment, defining metrics, dashboards and release gates for an end-to-end learned driving system with no existing playbook. Runs the performance improvement loop across model, robot software, backend and evaluation tooling, leading cross-functional execution without direct reporting authority while staying hands-on in Python, C++ and SQL.

Databricks · Looker · Grafana +1