Robotics Jobs in London

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.

eFinancialCareers · London

Designs an agentic automation framework in Python on AWS Bedrock, decomposing Jira workflows into microservices and LLM agents. Owns end-to-end delivery of automation across Operations, Compliance and Risk, building secure integrations with core systems and tuning agent quality, latency and cost. Also mentors junior engineers and drives coding standards, code reviews and CI/CD hygiene.

eFinancialCareers · London

Design and deliver AI-driven automation solutions that streamline complex business processes across customer, operations, compliance, legal and finance workflows. Build scalable automation services integrating AI/ML into production business workflows, working with product managers, technical program managers and business architects in a cross-functional team.

Imperial College London · London · £45,399 – £59,484 pa

Develop conversational agents and social robots for dementia care within the Biomechatronics Laboratory, combining NLP, machine learning, signal processing and mechatronic fabrication. The role involves planning research, collaborating with psychiatrists, neurologists and engineers, and running human-robot interface experiments mapping voice activity to robotic engagement.

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.

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.

MFK Recruitment · Brentford · £70,000 – £95,000 pa

Design and deploy production-grade computer vision systems using deep learning techniques such as CNNs and Vision Transformers. Translate AI research into robust, real-world applications for defence and security environments. Work across the full development lifecycle, from research to deployment on cloud and edge platforms, in close collaboration with software engineers and researchers.

MFK Recruitment · Brentford · £75,000 – £100,000 pa

Develop an engineering-grade spiking neural network engine for machine vision applications in defence and security contexts. Translate advanced research into robust production software using C++ and machine vision techniques. Collaborate with researchers and engineers on SNNs, CNNs, and Transformers, with integration into operational systems.

Tec Partners Recruitment Ltd · London · £30 – £40 ph

Building and wiring advanced robotic manufacturing machinery on a short-term contract, covering control panel installation, 3-phase power and control cabling, and safety circuits. The role involves working from electrical schematics, plus continuity testing and fault finding on automated equipment within an automation and manufacturing business.

Ocado · London

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.

Paddington Robotics · London · £700 – £900 pd

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.

Humanoid · London

Lead the physical environment strategy across lab, workspace, test, integration, prototype manufacturing and office areas, owning brownfield retrofits and complex fit-out programmes from scoping to commissioning. Manage external architects, contractors and consultants while overseeing general office operations, reception and front-of-house teams across global sites.

Humanoid · London

Owns end-to-end planning and execution of a portfolio of software and hardware projects within a humanoid robot new product introduction program, accountable for scope, schedule, cost and process. Coordinates deeply cross-functional teams across Systems, AI/ML, Firmware, Mechanical, Supply Chain and more, spanning sites in Boston, Vancouver and San Diego. Requires strong technical judgment, systems thinking and the ability to clear blockers and manage risks across distributed teams.

Wayve · London

Builds and evolves the data pipeline and orchestration platform behind Wayve's autonomous driving data, revamping the existing Harness system and creating a new DAG-based workflow platform. Works on Kubernetes-deployed, distributed infrastructure handling hundreds of parallel pipeline steps, batch inference and evaluation workflows, closely with partner teams.

Wayve · London

Lead a London-based team building the on-vehicle experiment platform that lets researchers deploy driving models to vehicles, run experiments and collect training data. Own people, roadmap and OEM partnerships while staying hands-on with embedded Linux, C++/Python and over-the-air deployment across vehicle fleets.