Robotics Jobs

• 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
• £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

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Builds action-conditioned generative world models that predict future video, proprioception, contacts and outcomes for humanoid robots, using diffusion and transformer architectures. The role spans large-scale distributed training, learned-simulator policy evaluation, synthetic rollout generation and sim-to-real transfer, working hands-on with real fleet data alongside pretraining, RL and manipulation teams.

PyTorch · JAX · Isaac Sim +1

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Post-train and scale GAIA-family large video diffusion world models to generate multimodal synthetic driving data, running generation pipelines across tens of thousands of segments and optimising GPU inference. Sits between ML research and engineering, landing synthetic data into the same training stack as real driving data and measuring its impact on driving-model performance.

GAIA · GPU · KV Cache

• 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
• 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

• Market Harborough
• On-site
• Permanent

Hands-on role taking ownership of UAV development from concept to flight-ready hardware, designing and integrating airframes, actuators, power systems and sensors. Joining as a founding engineering hire at an early-stage UK defence company building passive drone detection and interceptor technology, working on-site near Market Harborough.

• 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
• 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

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £55,000 – £75,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Design, develop and test software for advanced robotic platforms using C++ and ROS 2, working alongside electronics, mechatronics and research teams in an Agile environment. The role includes testing, debugging and validating software reliability plus on-site support for physical robots, with occasional travel to field locations across UK and EU teams.

ROS2 · ROS1 · Linux +1

• Butterrow
• £55,000 – £65,000 pa
• Mid-level

Design and build embedded software, data pipelines and machine learning systems for advanced sensing and communications technology. Work spans real-time C/C++ firmware, communication protocols, MLOps with CI/CD and model monitoring, generative AI/LLM systems including RAG and fine-tuning, and Spark/dbt ETL pipelines feeding IoT data services. Joining a small team owning the full SDLC from clean-sheet design to live deployment.

Spark · dbt · CI/CD +1

• Milton Keynes
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Provide expert technical support for electrical and automation products across European subsidiaries, combining PLC set-up and programming, customer application support, product testing and technical training. The role sits within an expanding European Technical Centre focused on electric actuator design, with occasional travel to support customers and attend exhibitions.

TIA Portal · TwinCAT · Studio 5000 +5

• Milton Keynes
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Provide expert technical support for electrical and automation products to European subsidiaries, combining PLC set-up and programming, customer application support, product testing and technical training. Work with protocols such as PROFINET, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA and IO-Link, writing technical reports and manuals, with occasional European travel. Based at the European Technical Centre in Milton Keynes within a global product development team.

TIA Portal · TwinCAT · Studio 5000 +5

• 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