At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to design and develop cutting-edge AI-powered robotic systems.
- Company: Tekton Dynamics, backed by top investors and a visionary founding team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, private health insurance, free lunch, and a curiosity allowance.
- Other info: Dynamic lab environment near London Bridge with excellent growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of a revolutionary mission to empower manufacturers with intelligent robotics.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in software development, strong problem-solving skills, and a collaborative mindset.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 150000 £ per year.
Location: Our industrial lab near London Bridge, in person 5 days/week, occasional travel to industry partners across the UK, Europe, and the US.
Compensation: Competitive salary: GBP 100-150K + bonus + meaningful equity.
About Tekton Dynamics: At Tekton Dynamics, we are on a mission to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, to invent and build anything using intelligent robots. We are building the AI-powered control layer for industrial robots — starting with welding. Backed by Y Combinator and founders of PayPal, Affirm, Slack – with a $6M seed round. Founding team of AI PhDs and previous startup CTOs – everyone has a founder/CTO background. Building with real industry partners from the start – focused on shipping robotic solutions for real-world deployment in record time.
Your Role: As Tekton Dynamics’ Founding Engineer, you’ll operate as a core member of our multi-disciplinary product engineering team. You'll be researching, planning, and developing systems and software across our entire engineering stack. This is not a typical “Software Engineer” role. You’ll design, build, and maintain core systems that fuse software, hardware and networks. You’ll be both in the weeds with deeply technical subject matter across software, robotics, and AI — and hands‑on installing vision sensors, industrial robots, and welding equipment in our R&D lab and our customers’ production facilities.
We value “T‑shaped” engineers who:
- Dive into subject matter they are unfamiliar with
- Apply first principles to solve technical problems
- Index on solving the right problems over finding the perfect solution
- Debate with data and logic, and then commit fully to executing team decisions
- Appreciate that delivering customer value requires communicating and building trust with our customers
Must‑haves:
- 3+ years shipping software in highly technical startup environments
- “T‑shaped” systems and software generalist
- Designed, built and deployed software as part of an engineering team
- Comfortable and confident in debugging messy reality: edge networks, hardware calibration, sim‑to‑real gap
- Proven team player, clear communicator; you think from first principles, you identify assumptions and test them methodically, you question the ‘why’ behind every decision
Nice‑to‑haves:
- Familiarity with training and evaluating machine learning pipelines
- Experience in harsh industrial settings (welding/fabrication/heavy industry)
- Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- Robotics and/or computer vision experience
- Edge compute deployments, latency optimization and reliability monitoring
Example areas you’d be involved in:
- Industrial workflows
- Process: 3D CAD models into efficient data structures; create declarative representations of complex industrial processes
- Perception: Install, calibrate, and optimize vision sensor capture and fusion pipelines; train and deploy computer vision models for processing 2D/3D images
- Robot Control and Command: Tune and optimize our robot motion planning and collision avoidance stack; build and train AI/machine learning based systems to handle real-world welding scenarios
- Systems, hardware, and integration: Design and construct sensor enclosures to protect sensors and edge devices; design robust network architectures with redundancy to ensure always‑on and secure access to edge devices; engage external vendors and integrators to plan and install robotic cells
Benefits: Private health insurance + pension contributions; free lunch; curiosity allowance (books, learning, memberships).
In‑office culture: Our team works in our industrial lab near London Bridge five days a week. In our opinion, it’s a core requirement for building physical AI - and we love it. Please only apply if this excites you too.
Compensation Range: £100K - £150K
Founding Engineer employer: Tekton Dynamics (YC W24)
At Tekton Dynamics, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in our industrial lab near London Bridge. Our culture fosters innovation and collaboration, with a focus on empowering engineers to tackle real-world challenges using cutting-edge technology. With competitive compensation, private health insurance, and a curiosity allowance for continuous learning, we provide ample opportunities for professional growth while working alongside a talented founding team backed by industry leaders.
