12 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the development, deployment, operation, and improvement of Humanoid’s existing data platform.
- Lead external contractors by defining scope, priorities, technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery standards.
- Gather internal engineering requirements, translate them into technical briefs, maintain the backlog, and communicate tradeoffs and risks.
- Build and operate cloud compute, storage, networking, environments, and infrastructure as code.
- Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, integrations, and frontend interfaces for internal users and workflows.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment processes, environment configuration, and developer tooling.
- Develop and maintain data ingestion, processing, storage, and access pipelines, including data quality and failed-job recovery.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, rollback, backup, and recovery procedures and investigate production incidents.
- Manage contractor permissions and secrets and preserve source code, infrastructure definitions, documentation, and operational knowledge.
- Validate contractor deliverables and ensure releases include the documentation and support required for ongoing operation.
Requirements
- Experience building, deploying, and operating production software on a major cloud platform.
- Strong practical knowledge of infrastructure as code, containers, Linux, networking, identity and access management, and CI/CD.
- Solid software engineering skills across backend services, APIs, databases, frontend, and backend code.
- Experience with data pipelines, object storage, relational databases, and reliable processing of large datasets.
- Evidence of owning and safely improving an existing platform, including understanding unfamiliar code and diagnosing problems.
- Experience leading external developers or contractors through scoping, implementation review, and quality control.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to turn incomplete requirements into actionable technical work.
- Sound judgment about what to build directly, what to delegate, and when to involve internal engineering specialists.
- Experience with robotics, machine learning infrastructure, sensor data, or internal data platforms is valuable but not required.
Benefits
- Competitive equity through stock options with meaningful upside.
- 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days including the Christmas–New Year shutdown.
- Private healthcare with virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with an 8% total contribution on full earnings, comprising 5% employee and 3% employer contributions.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in the office.
- Work alongside engineers, researchers, and product experts building humanoid robots and AI systems.
- Significant ownership, access to founding leadership, input into product direction, and the opportunity to drive key initiatives from day one.
- Office-based work is indicated by the in-office meal benefits.
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial environments to automate hazardous or monotonous tasks in manufacturing, logistics, and construction. Its HMND‑01 Alpha platform is running in real industrial pilots, pointing toward a hardware-and-software product paired with deployment services. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in London, the privately held company is scaling toward wider commercialization from these pilots.