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Founding Engineer
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Founding Engineer, Robotics AI London, on site | £70K to £120K base plus bonus and meaningful equity
Early stage, well funded robotics startup looking for employee number four. They're building software that lets industrial robots see, think and adapt on the fly, instead of needing manual reprogramming every time the job changes.
You'd own problems end to end: from vision and perception through to motion planning and the physical hardware on site. Equal parts coding, debugging real machinery, and figuring things out as you go.
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What you'll need:
- 3+ years shipping software in fast moving startups
- A true generalist, comfortable across software, ML and hardware
- Strong Python. Happy working hands on with real, messy engineering problems
- Comfortable using AI coding tools as part of your workflow
- Genuinely want to be in a lab, on site, five days a week
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Nice to have: robotics, computer vision, ML or industrial engineering exposure.
On offer: meaningful equity, real influence as an early hire, health cover, pension.
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