Robotics Jobs in Woking

Autodiscovery · Wantage

Lead the design and deployment of autonomous robotic systems, owning software architecture across perception, planning and control. Work spans prototyping, simulation and field testing, integrating with hardware teams while mentoring engineers and shaping technical roadmaps. Requires depth in C++, ROS2, SLAM and real-time systems.

Flarebright · Bicester · £39,000 – £49,000 pa

Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.

Hernshead Recruitment Ltd · United Kingdom · £1 – £99 ph

Hands-on commissioning of automation and control systems on a major project in Dubai, with a strong focus on COPA-DATA Zenon. Duties include testing, fault-finding, I/O checks, FAT/SAT support and system integration with plant and equipment, working alongside electrical, controls and project engineering teams through start-up and handover.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Contribute to a project designing and controlling robots built from tensegrity structures, exploiting shape change and nonlinear mechanics to unlock locomotion and manipulation skills. Co-optimize designs and control policies via simulation and build and test tensegrity hardware, while supervising undergraduate and graduate students.

Gattaca · London · £25 – £30 ph

Hands-on build role assembling, testing and troubleshooting complex robotic systems and sub-assemblies for the retail sector. Working from engineering drawings, schematics and work instructions, you'll fault-find build issues and support the engineering team to hit customer delivery deadlines. Based onsite in West London within a small, collaborative team on a short-term contract.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Develops musculoskeletal models and simulations of human-robot interaction to guide the design of wearable robots delivering assistive forces and joint torques. Examines how robotic assistance affects movement, muscle activity and joint loading, collaborating with experimental researchers to validate models against motion, force and EMG data.

Imperial College London · London · £50,733 – £59,484 pa

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.

NVIDIA · Bristol

Internship on NVIDIA's embedded computing team, working with Tegra SoC, DGX Spark and the Jetson Embedded Platform. The role involves building Linux kernel and user-space software, advancing the Jetson Developer Kit and developer experience, and accelerating deep learning and neural network technologies for autonomous vehicles, robotics and analytics alongside hardware and software engineers.

NES Group Ltd · Lincoln

Develops and standardises control system and automation design documentation for industrial power generation applications, building AutoCAD libraries, templates and symbol sets. Produces control panel layouts and engineering drawings, converts legacy documentation and works with Controls, Electrical and Manufacturing teams to improve design consistency.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Develop wearable soft robotic devices that deliver assistive forces and joint torques for upper-body movement, combining soft actuation, device fabrication and experimental biomechanics. Design and test actuators, characterise joint assistance and load transfer, and collaborate with biomechanical modelling and robotics researchers. Fixed-term post funded by UKRI within RADlab at the Department of Engineering Science.