Member of Technical Staff - Agentic Hardware in London

About Adexis

Adexis is a London-based frontier research lab solving dexterous manipulation. Our mission is to bring machines the power of touch on the path to physical general intelligence, bringing about a future of abundance. We are building a lean, talent dense organisation, inspired by history's great groups — the Manhattan Project, Apollo, Bell Labs, Skunkworks — where aggregating outlier individuals drove collective output that changed history. We are backed by leading investors and researchers from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind and more. Adexis' founding team comes from Wayve, Synthesia, Amazon, Google and UCL.

Touch is the missing modality in physical intelligence, and the sensors to capture it at scale don't exist yet. As a founding hardware hire, you'll own both the sensors and the system that designs them. This could include:

• Build the agentic design loop: frontier models generating and mutating sensor designs — elastomer geometry and stiffness, electrode and taxel layouts, optical paths, marker patterns, PCB layouts — and running them through simulation continuously.
• Make sim the judge: build the physics models that score a design before it exists — FEM of elastomer deformation under contact, transduction models (capacitive, piezoresistive, magnetic, optical), noise and crosstalk.
• Define "good": spatial resolution, sensitivity, dynamic range, hysteresis, shear vs. normal discrimination, bandwidth, durability, manufacturability — and ultimately, downstream policy performance.
• Close sim-to-real: fabricate the designs the loop selects (casting, moulding, PCB, firmware), characterise them on automated indentation rigs, and feed measurements back to calibrate the simulator for the next round.
• Compress the cycle: weeks per iteration today; overnight in sim and days to a characterised physical sensor.

You might be a fit if you:

• Have built something nobody knew how to build.
• Hold an uncompromising quality bar.
• Are fully AGI-pilled. You already use frontier models for CAD, firmware, PCB review, simulation setup and failure analysis — and you're frustrated the rest of the field hasn't caught up. You see your job as designing the system that designs the sensor.
• Have used simulation (FEM, optical or contact modelling) to make design decisions.
• Think across the stack: soft materials and fabrication, analogue/mixed-signal electronics, embedded systems, characterisation.

Bonus points:

• Former founder
• Worked at a Musk company
• Experience with any of: tactile sensing, programmatic CAD, differentiable simulation, automated test rigs, small-scale manufacturing.

We seek a high-ownership individual up to the task of defining how Adexis — and the field — builds sensors. This is a founding role and will be compensated accordingly with equity.

Compensation & benefits

• Salary: £100-175k
• Equity: 0.5–1.5%
• Private healthcare with AXA
• Unlimited frontier model access, top of the line equipment, and a fabrication budget built for speed.
• London (Hoxton), on-site. This is not a remote position.