Robotics Software Engineer

This role is for you if you thrive on variety and love tackling the messy, real-world challenges that come from integrating software with hardware. You’ll also be passionate about bringing robots to life. No two days will be the same, but you can expect to:

• Solve challenging software problems end-to-end: spec, implement, test, and maintain robotics systems.
• Jump into unfamiliar software domains at breakneck speed - one month you might be optimising SLAM algorithms and the next, developing new navigation algorithms.
• Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary engineers, product, and customer teams to iterate and improve solutions.
• Deliver real-world impact, today, using cutting-edge robotics.

At Paddington Robotics, we’re building robots that can handle the messy, unpredictable and chaotic real world! We believe that by deploying today, we reveal second-order effects and edge cases that can’t be seen in the lab or the sim. Our mission: become the UK’s go-to applied AI robotics team - and we’ll go above and beyond to get there.

What we actually do:

• Build AI models and hardware that let robots work safely alongside humans - lifting, moving, and getting stuff done better and faster.
• Spend lots of time on Customer sites, to better understand and solve for the messy chaos of most environments.
• Think 10+ years ahead, reimagining manual labour and creating robots that become complementary assistants for labour intensive and physically demanding tasks.

We’re a small, dynamic team from Amazon, InstaDeep, Imperial, UCL, and Cambridge to name a few, united by one of the founders of Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter).

We’re hiring a Robotics Software Engineer to own a key part of our robotics system end-to-end. You’ll spec it, implement it, test it, maintain it - and live and breathe the customer problem it solves on site. Our work is highly inter-disciplinary, so you may have experience across these, or other areas:

• Low-level microcontrollers
• Image processing & computer vision
• High-performance computing, CUDA
• Machine learning & reinforcement learning

We are looking for someone who has experience working with robotics. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

You live and breathe code: Masters in Computer Science (or related field), expert in Python (and its libraries), expert with C/C++. You’ve built and shipped software end-to-end, whether in industry, academia or a scrappy startup (even better!). You’re highly collaborative, and love working with others: sharing knowledge, learning from and teaching others, and embracing feedback. You’re a fast learner, and low ego: and ask all the questions! You’re a practical problem solver: you can take your expertise and tackle engineering challenges pragmatically in messy, real-world environments.

Above all, we’re building a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers. To thrive here, you are:

• Highly ambitious: comfortable taking a project from concept to completion - you do whatever it takes to win.
• Self-directed and proactive: you thrive in a dynamic, unpredictable, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Enthusiastic team players: you ask questions, help others, and communicate effectively.

We love proactive doers. Show us what you’ve built - whether it’s interfaces, projects, or experiments. Tell us why our mission excites you. Be bold, be creative, and don’t feel embarrassed to stand out from the crowd.

Our London office is right by Portobello Road. We work full-time, and largely on-site (4-5 days a week). Expect vibrant startup energy with a team that knows when to laugh, and when to buckle down. Paddington Robotics is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals from all backgrounds to apply. We offer competitive compensation, the friendliest of teams, an insanely stimulating work environment, and the opportunity to be a part of something massive.