Robotics Engineer

The role

You will work hands-on with robot hardware to develop software and algorithmic control. You will integrate robots with software, develop control policies, and design test scenarios for construction environments.

What you will do

• Integrate robots with software including ROS/ROS 2 interfaces, control, sensors, compute and data flows.
• Build repeatable tools for bring-up, configuration, logging and monitoring.
• Establish baseline control and develop task-specific behaviours for navigation, positioning and capture.
• Train and tune control policies in simulation and validate them on hardware.
• Develop localisation-aware path planning, waypoint execution and obstacle handling.
• Integrate capture payloads into construction progress workflows.
• Design test scenarios to measure mission completion, coverage, localisation quality, intervention, recovery and repeatability.
• Bring technical expertise and new ideas to the programme.

Required qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Computer Science, Mechatronics or a related discipline, or equivalent applied robotics experience.
• Hands-on experience building, programming or directly controlling a physical robot.
• Strong Python and C++.
• Practical ROS experience.
• Working knowledge of kinematics, coordinate frames, feedback control, state estimation, path planning and robot hardware.
• Experience training or tuning robot control policies using NVIDIA Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim or similar tools.
• The right to work in the UK.

Nice to have

• ROS 2
• Sim-to-real transfer on physical hardware
• Navigation, SLAM, perception & sensor fusion
• Mobile or field robotics, BIM/CAD or construction technology

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays
• Private healthcare with Vitality
• Christmas shutdown days on top of leave allowance (2–4 per year usually)
• Office located within a 5-minute walk from Angel station
• Annual salary reviews
• Summer & Christmas staff parties
• Free lunch on Thursdays, followed by after-work drinks
• Employee referral scheme

Before you apply

• The right to work in the UK.
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

About the company

XYZ Reality created the world’s first engineering-grade augmented reality for construction. The company has over 150 staff across the UK, US and Europe.