Robotics Jobs

• Christchurch, New Zealand
• £60,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead automation projects from concept and specification through commissioning, validation and production release, acting as site subject matter expert for automated assembly equipment. Work with Operations, Quality, R&D and external machine builders on robotics, machine vision, laser marking, leak testing and serialization within a regulated medical device environment, while mentoring junior engineers.

Siemens · Rockwell · Beckhoff +7

• Portsmouth
• On-site
• £60,000 – £70,000 pa
• Senior

Develops and maintains PLC software for automated manufacturing equipment, programming industrial robots and integrating machine vision, servo drives and RFID systems. Works within an established manufacturer's R&D team, troubleshooting and optimising existing machinery and supporting new automation projects. Mitsubishi and Keyence experience is desirable but training can be provided.

Mitsubishi PLC · Mitsubishi iQ-R · Mitsubishi R-series +5

• Kilkenny, Ireland
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Field-based controls role combining PLC and HMI programming, commissioning, fault diagnosis and customer support on automated manufacturing systems. You'll work with Allen Bradley and Siemens platforms, servo drives, robotics and industrial networks, travelling domestically and internationally to customer sites and leading on-site technical activities.

Allen Bradley · Siemens · PLC +4

• 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 the full training loop for vision-language-action policies, from pre-training a base model on multi-embodiment trajectory corpora through behaviour cloning and RL fine-tuning to deployment. Builds continuous data pipelines that ingest synthetic and teleop data, version and weakly-supervise it, and surface failure cases for retraining, working with MLOps and Data Collection teams on distributed training and edge inference.

PyTorch · JAX · OpenVLA +1

• Wall, Staffordshire
• Hybrid
• £45,000 – £60,000 pa
• Mid-level

Design and develop PLC software from first principles for bespoke industrial automation projects across automotive, food & beverage, aerospace and pharmaceutical sectors. Work spans Siemens TIA Portal/S7 and Rockwell Studio 5000, safety-related control software, VFDs, servo drives, motion and fieldbus networks, through testing, commissioning and customer handover, with UK site travel.

Siemens TIA Portal · Siemens S7 · Rockwell Studio 5000 +7

• 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

• Oxfordshire
• £27,091 – £33,111 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Design, build and deploy control systems for retro-fit vision kits and turnkey automation machinery, owning projects from AutoCAD Electrical schematics and PLC coding through to shop-floor testing and site commissioning. Involves specifying safety hardware and industrial networks, supporting panel wiring and electrical testing, and commissioning at customer sites in the UK and overseas.

AutoCAD Electrical · PLC · Profinet +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead large-scale data enrichment and curation for the Core Model Safety team, mining hard and rare events and building workflows across pre/mid-training, reward modelling and self-supervised labelling. Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms for robust driverless operation, working at the intersection of model engineering, infrastructure, compute and data.

PyTorch · CUDA

• Nuremberg, Germany
• Senior
• Permanent

The role is a W3 professorship in Mechatronics & Robotics at a new German technical university, with the expectation of serving as Founding Chair for a soon-to-be-founded department. The post combines research, teaching (largely in English) and interdisciplinary collaboration within a lean, AI-focused institution.

• Crewe
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on senior engineering role owning software architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure and computational modelling for autonomous agricultural machinery. Involves building backend services, APIs and data tools, plus simulation and Digital Twin work validated against real machines, collaborating with mechanical, electronics and robotics engineers.

AWS · Linux · Docker +6

• 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

• 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
• 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

• Northampton
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

On-site maintenance of Exotec's robotic warehouse automation systems at a customer site in Northampton, covering preventative and corrective maintenance on robots, conveyors and machines. The role combines electrical and mechanical fault-finding, root cause analysis, commissioning support and rapid incident response within a dedicated site team.

Conveyors · Robots · Automated Warehouse Systems