What matters most is that you understand the complexity of a robotic system, and have hands-on experience across the full pipeline, from data collection through to real-world deployment.

You will also have:

• One or more publications in a leading journal or conference relevant to the sector (e.g. in T-RO, ICRA, IROS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, or NeurIPS)
• Practical, hands-on experience collecting data from and/or deploying software or models onto a physical robotic system (e.g. teleoperation, sensor integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing, sim-to-real transfer).
• Strong programming skills (Python and/or C++), comfortable writing and maintaining real software rather than one-off scripts, with an understanding of modern version control (e.g. Git).
• Understanding of mechatronic system (actuators, sensing, etc)
• A clear interest in applying your research to real-world robotics problems, and in making the transition from academia into an industry engineering role.

While not essential requirements, we would also be very interested if you have experience with any of the following:

• ROS or other robotics middleware
• Computer vision (SfM, SLAM, VLM)
• Reinforcement learning or imitation learning
• Transformer, diffusion, VLA, WAM models
• Sensor integration (cameras, force/torque sensors, LiDAR, IMUs)
• Simulation environments (e.g. Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo)
• Edge compute and embedded deployment
• Bayesian statistics or signal processing
• Prior work in healthcare robotics or industrial automation

Why Cambridge Consultants?

Cambridge Consultants creates exciting and novel breakthroughs in technology and products. Our work on intelligent systems area has helped create world-first and market-changing technologies including real-time AI-enhanced medical imaging, autonomous defence systems against cyberattacks, and edge algorithms to help visually impaired people navigate indoor spaces. In robotics specifically, our teams are working on humanoid platforms and surgical robotic systems, alongside industrial robotics applications, giving interns exposure to some of the most demanding and fast-moving areas of the field.

We combine our research output with engineering rigour to create innovative and robust solutions to solve complex problems presented to us by our clients. We help clients across a diverse range of markets, including defence/security, healthcare, biotech, industrial and energy, so there is no shortage of variety.

At the heart of what we do are talented and motivated multi-disciplinary teams empowered to create cutting-edge technologies and systems to solve difficult problems for our clients. We offer a diverse, fun, and challenging work environment where you'll have the chance to work on a wide variety of projects that deliver real value using technology.

We recognise and celebrate individual talent and we understand the importance of letting individuals be just that. Our people are here to do the best work of their lives, and our job is to provide the platform for them to do it.

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