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
• 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
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns the technical architecture and roadmap for LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing, leading development of target-based and targetless calibration, LiDAR-to-camera registration, temporal alignment and motion compensation using LiDAR odometry, nonlinear least-squares optimisation and factor graphs. A senior individual-contributor role combining algorithm development, evaluation methodology and productionisation, with technical leadership and mentorship across the 3D sensing stack.

GTSAM · Ceres Solver · g2o +1

• Reading
• £22,905 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A Leverhulme Trust-funded PhD studentship exploring how intelligence can emerge from interactions between hydrogel networks, a soft robotic body and its environment. The researcher will fabricate hydrogels, run bioelectrical measurements and connect physical experiments to artificial neural networks, working across materials science and biomedical engineering.

Artificial Neural Networks

• Coventry
• £51 – £60 ph
• Mid-level · manages people

Deliver industrial automation projects from design through installation and commissioning, covering mechanical and electrical assembly, robot programming, PLC/HMI development and fault finding across electrical, mechanical and pneumatic systems. The role also involves customer liaison, training, supervision of apprentices and contractors, plus extensive UK and occasional international travel.

PLC · HMI · PMC +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.

• Reading
• £40,704 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops and characterises electroactive hydrogel systems, integrates them with soft robotic platforms and sensorimotor feedback, and investigates how gait and goal-directed learning emerge from body-environment interaction. The Leverhulme Trust-funded post sits within an interdisciplinary team exploring Physical AI, with scope for computational modelling, international collaboration and high-quality publications.

• 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

• 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

• Manchester
• £27,107 pa
• Entry level
• Contract · Part time

A 70-month part-time PhD combining research and teaching, split roughly 60% research and 40% teaching within the Control Systems and Robotics Group. The research topic is flexible, spanning control theory, autonomous systems, sensing, localisation, navigation, path planning and optimisation, with applications in nuclear, aerospace, automotive and energy sectors.

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Work across a small frontier-technology team building AVIS, an orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data such as text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds for decision-making in defence and national security. The role spans digital and physical AI systems, including ORION, STRIDER and BARBARIAN, with broad ownership and direct influence on the business.

AVIS · ORION · STRIDER +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

• 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

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Designs and controls robots built from tensegrity structures, co-optimising their designs and control policies in simulation and building and testing physical hardware. Based in the Protean Robotics Lab within the Department of Engineering Science, the role also involves supervising undergraduate and graduate students on the project.

IsaacLab · MuJoCo

• Dundalk, Ireland
• £51,794 – £60,426 pa
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a portfolio of industrial automation, robotics and engineering projects from concept through commissioning and customer handover, managing scope, costs, schedules and risks. You will direct multidisciplinary engineering teams and external contractors, produce cost estimates and business cases, and mentor junior project managers.

Automation and Control Systems · Special-Purpose Machinery · Systems Integration