Senior Robotics Engineer

Job Description

Senior Robotics Engineer

Job Location: London

Location Flexibility: Primary Location Only

Req Id: 10689

Posting Start Date: 8/5/26

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Title: Senior Robotics / Embodied Systems Engineer Level: Senior

Purpose Own embodied integration for manipulation, contact-rich testing, and real-robot adversarial experiments. Lead or co-lead research directions emerging from physical-AI vulnerability scanning.

Mission Our aim is to build the world’s first holistic vulnerability scanner for physical AI systems. The scanner will evaluate embodied AI systems under controlled perturbations across sensing, language-conditioned control, contact dynamics, and real-robot execution. You will be among the first technical owners of this project: identifying high-impact research directions, leading real-robot experiments, and building the manipulator-based infrastructure required for embodied physical-AI vulnerability scanning.

What you will own

Manipulator bring-up and stable operation

Real-vs-sim embodiment integration for contact-rich tasks

Safe execution infrastructure for manipulator experiments

Force/torque, gripper, and optional tactile/wrist sensing integration

Recovery logic and invalid-behavior criteria at the robot level

Identification of research gaps from real-robot failures and conversion of findings into research directions

Repeatable experimental infrastructure for embodied adversarial testing

Responsibilities

Integrate and maintain the manipulator stack in ROS 2

Own controller interfaces, motion-planning integration, and hardware reliability

Build contact-rich experimental tasks such as insertion, grasping, slip, force-aware interaction, and recovery

Integrate force/torque sensing and optional tactile or wrist sensing into the scanner

Define safe operating envelopes, shutdown procedures, fallback behaviours, and intervention criteria

Build reproducible real/sim manipulation scenarios

Lead hardware-in-the-loop adversarial experiments on embodied systems

Create tooling that makes robot experiments repeatable, measurable, and safe

Diagnose failures across perception, planning, control, sensing, and contact dynamics

Reformulate observed robotic failures into researchable problems, evaluation protocols, technical reports, publications, patents, or prototype capabilities

Required background

Demonstrated senior-level research or innovation record, evidenced by peer-reviewed publications, meaningful patents, major contributions to recognised robotics/AI systems, open-source robotics infrastructure, or deployed advanced robotic systems

Led at least one full-cycle research or advanced R&D project from problem formulation through implementation, experimental validation, and tangible outcome

Strong hands-on experience with real robots in research, advanced prototyping, or production-like experimental settings

Deep ROS 2 experience, including hardware integration and debugging

Experience with robot control, motion planning, and safety boundaries

Experience integrating force/torque sensing and ideally tactile, wrist, or gripper sensing

Comfort with contact-rich tasks, recovery behaviours, and failure diagnosis

Strong Python and C++ skills

Demonstrated ownership of messy real-world robotic systems, not just model development

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Relocation Supported: No

Visa Sponsorship Approved: No

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