Latest Robotics AI Engineer Jobs

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Senior Robotics Software Engineer

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.

Autodiscovery Wantage

On-site Permanent

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Software Engineer

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.

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

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Applied AI Engineer (Defence Contractor)

Build and own frontier AI systems end-to-end for defence and national security, working on the AVIS orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data such as text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds. The role is a contract engagement with regular on-site time in Oxford or London, shipping production systems where wrong decisions carry high stakes.

Paddington Robotics London £700 – £900 pd

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Robotics

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.

Kingston University London £45,925 – £60,492 pa

On-site Permanent

PhD Studentship in Control Systems and Robotics (Postgraduate Research Teaching Associate)

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.

The University of Manchester Manchester £27,107 pa

Contract Part-time

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Tensegrity Robot Design and Control

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.

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

On-site Contract

Robotics Test Engineer II

Runs end-to-end software release validation, regression suites and policy evaluations on real humanoid robots, comparing simulation results against physical behaviour. Builds CI/CD tests, maintains metrics dashboards and keeps test data clean, working closely with the Test Team and policy engineers. Distinct for its sim-to-real focus and hands-on robotics work rather than standard web QA.

Humanoid London

On-site Permanent

Robotics Applied Research Lead

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.

Humanoid London

On-site Permanent

Lead Technical Program Manager, AI Platform

Builds and leads the technical programme management function for Wayve's AI Platform organisation, owning planning, prioritisation and execution across data and compute infrastructure, developer tooling, training technology and inference optimisation. Coaches a small TPM team, manages cross-team dependencies with ML, research, embedded and vendor partners, and drives measurable gains in developer velocity, compute efficiency and model performance.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

Distinguished Software Architect

A cross-functional individual contributor role shaping software architecture across onboard software, AI, simulation, training, inference and Robotaxi systems. The architect defines boundaries, interfaces and abstractions spanning AI, compute and vehicle platforms, leading large multi-team architectural changes and acting as a technical decision-maker on safety-critical systems.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

PhD Position in Physical AI: Adaptive Foundation Models for Robotics

Three-year PhD fellowship in Physical AI at Aarhus University's Adaptive & Agentic AI Lab, supervised by Behzad Bozorgtabar and Qi Zhang. The researcher will develop vision-language-action models, world models for planning, and efficient adaptation methods for edge robotics, targeting publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, CoRL, RSS and ICRA.

Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark

On-site Contract

Senior Software Engineer

Builds and owns mission-critical AI systems end-to-end, working on the AVIS orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data such as text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds for defence, security and critical infrastructure customers. Engineers are held to a single high standard and judged on whether what they ship holds up in production.

Paddington Robotics Oxford

Hybrid Permanent Flexible Clearance Required

Electrical Design Engineer

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.

Tec Partners Recruitment Ltd London £45,000 – £70,000 pa

On-site

Senior Software Engineer - Data & ML

Owns the software engineering that brings data science and ML products into live production for the Autoplanner team, building AI-powered planning systems across global warehouses and last-mile assets. Writes typed, well-tested Python (with some Java for OSP integration), builds APIs and data contracts, manages AWS deployments and CI/CD, and packages, serves and monitors ML models. Partners closely with data scientists and shares on-call support.

Ocado London

Hybrid

Engineering Team Manager

Lead a team of engineers, technicians and trainees at an automated Customer Fulfilment Centre, allocating workload, assessing capabilities and handling disciplinary matters. Requires hands-on mechanical and electrical engineering competence plus familiarity with MHE systems and computerised maintenance management. Shift-based cover for a 24/7 operation on 12-hour days, nights and weekends.

Ocado Erith

On-site Shift-work

Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems

Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for next-generation autonomous systems, working within a specialist team and contributing to software architecture. The role sits in an evolving, regulated engineering space and requires strong C/C++ embedded experience plus familiarity with real-time systems. Office attendance is required three days per week.

Spectrum IT Recruitment Bampton £40,000 – £60,000 pa

Hybrid

Robot Performance Engineer

Triage, diagnose and resolve robot issues escalated from L1 monitoring, working hands-on with ROS topics, CAN buses, logs and configuration. You will write and maintain playbooks for repeat faults, train L1 and deployment teams, and escalate cleanly to L3 or Engineering when needed.

Dexory Wallingford