Robotics Engineer
XYZ Reality3 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Integrate physical robots with XYZ’s software, including ROS/ROS 2 interfaces, robot control, sensors, compute, data flows, configuration, logging, and monitoring.
- Develop baseline control and task-specific behaviours for navigation, positioning, and capture, including training and tuning control policies in simulation and validating them on hardware.
- Develop localisation-aware path planning, waypoint execution, obstacle handling, and robot missions based on work plans and BIM-derived locations.
- Integrate capture payloads so images, pose, timing, and mission status feed reliably into construction progress workflows.
- Design test scenarios and measure mission completion, coverage, localisation quality, intervention, recovery, and repeatability.
- Evaluate scripted, motion-planning, and learning-based approaches and contribute technical direction to the robotics programme.
Requirements
- MSc or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related discipline, or equivalent applied robotics experience.
- Hands-on experience building, programming, or directly controlling a physical robot through an academic project, research lab, or industry.
- Strong Python and C++, practical ROS experience, and working knowledge of kinematics, coordinate frames, feedback control, state estimation, path planning, and robot hardware.
- Experience training or tuning robot control policies, such as reinforcement or imitation learning, with NVIDIA Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, or similar tools.
- Rigorous experimental approach and the right to work in the UK.
- Experience with sim-to-real transfer on physical hardware, navigation, SLAM, perception, sensor fusion, mobile or field robotics, BIM/CAD, or construction technology is desirable.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays.
- Private healthcare with Vitality.
- Christmas shutdown days, usually 2–4 per year, in addition to the leave allowance.
- Office-based role at the London site in Angel, Islington, located within a five-minute walk of Angel station.
- Annual salary reviews.
- Summer and Christmas staff parties.
- Free lunch on Thursdays followed by after-work drinks.
- Employee referral scheme.
About XYZ Reality
XYZ Reality builds engineering-grade augmented reality for construction, combining its Atom hardhat/headset with a project controls platform that overlays BIM models on site for QA/QC, progress tracking, and issue resolution. The company sells to developers and contractors, particularly in data center and other mission‑critical projects, and also provides on‑site implementation. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, it is a privately held business.