5 months ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Develop teleoperation systems for robot manipulation, mobility, and loco-manipulation tasks.
- Design operator experiences including input mappings, visualizations, feedback loops, recovery flows, and training workflows.
- Integrate VR controllers, gloves, haptic devices, motion-capture systems, and custom operator stations into the robot software stack.
- Translate high-frequency human input into smooth, stable, physically feasible robot commands.
- Build real-time teleoperation infrastructure for streaming, calibration, replay, debugging, logging, training, and demonstration capture.
- Develop shared-autonomy and assistive-control features that combine human intent with robot capabilities.
- Create safety boundaries, limiters, alerts, emergency flows, recovery flows, and clear robot-state feedback.
- Define and improve metrics for latency, reliability, observability, operator success, demonstration quality, and failure modes.
- Stress-test teleoperation systems on real hardware and in simulation and drive reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with controls, manipulation, hardware, and operations teams to shape robot design and field workflows.
Requirements
- Strong robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, coordinate frames, control interfaces, state estimation basics, and real-time system behavior.
- Experience building teleoperation systems, operator UIs, shared-autonomy tools, human-robot interfaces, or robot-learning data-collection pipelines.
- Ability to write reliable software in C++ and/or Python.
- Experience with ROS/ROS2, real-time data streaming, or robotic middleware.
- Understanding of human-in-the-loop systems, including operator perception, command issuance, error recovery, and trust.
- Experience with software quality practices including clean abstractions, testing, logging, observability, performance tuning, and debugging.
- Strong debugging skills across operator input devices, robot motion, sensors, networking, and hardware behavior.
- Ability to iterate on real robots, incorporate operator feedback, and turn prototypes into robust capabilities.
- Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with real robotic hardware, manipulation, mobile manipulation, humanoids, or dexterous systems.
- Preferred experience designing safe workflows for hardware-facing systems and collecting demonstrations for imitation learning or behavior cloning.
- Preferred exposure to intent inference, haptics, force feedback, motion capture, VR/AR interfaces, or custom control devices.
- A product-minded approach to making robot control intuitive, safe, reliable, and pleasant for operators.
Benefits
- Competitive equity through stock options.
- 30+ days of time off, including 23 days of annual leave, UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days.
- Private healthcare with virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with an 8% total contribution, comprising 5% employee and 3% employer contributions.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in the office.
- Opportunity to work with engineers, researchers, and product experts on humanoid robotics and AI.
- Direct access to founding leadership and ownership of key initiatives from day one.
- Work arrangement is not explicitly stated; the posting references working in-office.
