Robotics Jobs

• 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
• 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

• Cinderford
• On-site
• £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Hands-on role owning the control and safety systems behind automated machinery and production cells in a manufacturing environment. You'll design, program and commission Siemens TIA PLCs and motion systems, integrate ABB robots and functional safety systems, and deliver SCADA/HMI solutions with alarms and diagnostics. Working in a small, close-knit team, you'll lead automation projects from concept to handover and support production and maintenance teams on site.

Siemens TIA · ABB · SCADA +4

• Leicester
• £40,000 – £50,000 pa

Designs electrical control and safety systems for bespoke automated machinery, producing EPLAN schematics, control panel designs and bills of materials, and ensuring CE compliance. The role spans the full project lifecycle, from risk assessments and panel build supervision through to commissioning, fault-finding and customer technical support, working with PLCs and industrial robots.

EPLAN · PLC · Omron +7

• 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
• 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

• Barton-upon-Humber
• £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Designs and develops automation and electrical control systems, programming PLCs, HMIs, drives and industrial networks while integrating robots and cobots into production lines. Works across the full project lifecycle from concept to commissioning, troubleshooting issues and producing electrical drawings and technical documentation. Also supports continuous improvement and safety compliance across multiple manufacturing sites.

Siemens · Schneider · Allen-Bradley +7

• Cambridge
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on role designing, building and testing software for a cell therapy manufacturing platform, spanning mobile robot interfaces, factory control, automation and orchestration. You'll deploy onto physical systems, run integration tests with robots and bioprocess equipment, and debug issues at the software-hardware boundary while mentoring other engineers.

ROS · ROS 2 · MQTT +5

• Hanoi, Vietnam
• On-site
• Permanent

Founding faculty role at a new multidisciplinary robotics and embodied intelligence research center, working with a senior scientific officer to build its research agenda, labs and talent pipeline. Appointees run an independent research program, teach robotics and AI courses, supervise students, and set up laboratory infrastructure and protocols.

• Bath
• £39,560 – £46,970 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Develop and validate high-fidelity physics-based models of soft and continuum robotic manipulators, covering nonlinear mechanics, structural dynamics and multi-physics interactions using tools such as COMSOL, ABAQUS or ANSYS. The role combines computational modelling with experimental validation and control work within a multidisciplinary team on the ARIA-funded Robot Dexterity Programme.

COMSOL · ABAQUS · ANSYS +2

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops and tests control policies for a quadruped robot with shape-morphing limbs, enabling tasks like ladder climbing and non-prehensile manipulation. The role combines bespoke morphing hardware upkeep with simulation work in IsaacLab or MuJoCo, within the Protean Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute.

IsaacLab · MuJoCo

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Durham
• £35,000 – £40,000 pa

Install, commission and repair automated industrial machinery at customer manufacturing sites, covering electrical, mechanical and PLC-controlled systems. Split time between planned servicing, breakdown fault-finding and training operators, with a one-in-seven out-of-hours rota and extensive travel including possible overseas trips.

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