Robotics Engineer

Location: Bristol (On-site)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Robot Learning Engineer to join an advanced robotics organisation developing next-generation humanoid systems.

You will lead the development of large-scale behaviour models for robotic manipulation, bridging cutting-edge machine learning research with real-world deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and train large-scale robot learning models


• Develop diffusion transformer and VLA-based policies


• Advance reinforcement learning pipelines


• Build sim-to-real transfer capabilities


• Deploy policies onto physical robotic systems

Skills & Experience Required

• MSc or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, or similar


• Strong experience in robot learning and real-world deployment


• Expertise in reinforcement learning, diffusion models, or behaviour cloning


• Strong Python and PyTorch experience


• Experience with large-scale model training


• Experience with humanoid robotics


• Sim-to-real pipelines (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim)


• Published research or equivalent practical impact


• Work on cutting-edge robotics technology
  
• Opportunity to publish research


• Collaborative, high-performing team


• Career progression in a fast-growing sector