Robotics Jobs

• 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

• Birmingham
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead research into robotic metamaterials that adapt their dynamics after deployment, combining table-top robotic experiments with theory and numerical simulations. Develop decentralised learning techniques for networks of active mechanical units, exploring links between network structure and functionality. Tailored to the candidate's interests within a physics and robotics lab.

• 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.

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop a next-generation endurant power and propulsion system for autonomous underwater vehicles used in offshore energy infrastructure. The role involves co-developing system requirements from real inspection missions, integrating battery and propulsion prototypes into an AUV platform, and running tank tests followed by sea trials. Work is with industrial partner Walker Subsea and the Process Intensification Group.

AUV · ROV

• Nottingham
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops qualitative and quantitative risk assessment and modelling approaches for robotics-based maintenance and decommissioning of nuclear fusion plants, analysing system failure modes, mission threats and recovery under uncertainty. Based in the Faculty of Engineering and supervised by Rasa Remenyte-Prescott, it is a funded PhD project starting October 2027.

ITER · STEP

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £45,000 – £75,000 pa

Designs electro-optical camera systems—lenses, mirrors and sensors—and optimises them for VIS, NIR and FIR applications, running optical simulations in OpticStudio, selecting components and testing prototypes through to product release. Works fully on-site on AI hardware products using computer vision for monitoring and tracking, with military-related applications requiring security clearance.

OpticStudio

• 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.

• 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

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Develops learning-based locomotion and whole-body control policies for humanoid robots, using reinforcement and imitation learning, generative models and motion primitives. Builds scalable simulation and training pipelines in Isaac Lab and MuJoCo, and deploys, debugs and fine-tunes policies on physical robots, tackling sim-to-real transfer and real-time inference latency.

Isaac Lab · Isaac Sim · MuJoCo +1

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Designs and trains reinforcement learning policies for dynamic locomotion and loco-manipulation on humanoid robots, building scalable simulation pipelines in Isaac Lab or MuJoCo and improving sim-to-real transfer. Works closely with controls and robotics engineers to integrate learned policies into the control stack, iterating between large-scale simulation and hardware experiments.

Isaac Lab · MuJoCo

• 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.

• 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.

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead the technical direction for an offline 3D reconstruction system that turns raw vehicle sensor data into quality-assessed 3D ground-truth geometry and ego motion. The role spans SLAM, lidar point-cloud registration, state estimation and sensor fusion, with responsibility for architecture, roadmaps, prototypes and cross-functional alignment across perception, calibration and validation teams.

ROS · PCL · OpenCV +3

• 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