At a Glance
- Tasks: Own the post-training stack and design strategies for robot behaviour.
- Company: Join a pioneering research lab in London focused on dexterous manipulation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, private healthcare, and top-notch equipment.
- Other info: High ownership role with significant impact and career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be a founding member shaping the future of robotics and AI.
- Qualifications: Experience with manipulation policies and a deep understanding of imitation learning.
The predicted salary is between 150000 - 225000 £ per year.
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.
As a founding hire, you will own how our foundation model becomes a policy that acts — the post-training recipe that turns a world representation into dexterous, reliable behaviour on a real robot.
What you'll do:
- Own the post-training stack: how we adapt a pretrained model into a control policy using teleoperated demonstration data.
- Design the recipe — demonstration collection strategy, imitation and any reinforcement or self-improvement stages, and the full sequence from foundation model to deployable policy.
- Close the sim-to-real and human-to-robot gaps: make a policy learned from human demonstration survive contact with the real world.
- Define what good behaviour is and build the evaluation that catches a policy that looks good offline and fails on hardware.
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the pre-training owner; the boundary between pretraining and post-training is a conversation you'll own jointly.
You might be a fit if you:
- Have trained manipulation policies and put them on real hardware — you know the specific pain of a policy that demos well and dies on contact.
- Know imitation learning deeply and know when reinforcement is worth the instability.
- Have a point of view on learning dexterous, contact-rich skills rather than pick-and-place.
- Bonus: teleoperation systems, learning from human demonstration, real-world RL.
We seek a high ownership individual up to the task of defining this vision. This is a founding research role and will be compensated accordingly with equity.
Compensation & benefits:
- Salary: £150–225k
- Equity: 0.5-2.5%
- Private healthcare with medical history disregarded
- Top of the line equipment
Member of Technical Staff – Post-Training in London employer: Adexis
Adexis is an exceptional employer for those passionate about pioneering robotics and AI, offering a unique opportunity to be part of a founding team in a cutting-edge research lab located in London. With a strong emphasis on innovation and collaboration, employees benefit from a culture that values high ownership and creativity, alongside competitive compensation and equity options. The company fosters professional growth through hands-on experience in real-time systems, while being backed by industry-leading investors, ensuring a stimulating environment for personal and career development.
