Robotics Engineer
Senior Robotics Engineer
Location: Bristol (On-Site)
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Dependent on Experience (DOE)
The Opportunity
We're working with an innovative robotics company developing advanced autonomous systems for real-world industrial applications. As the business continues to scale, they are looking to appoint a Senior Robotics Engineer to help build and deploy the next generation of robotic capabilities.
This is a hands-on role focused on real robots operating in real environments. You'll work alongside a highly experienced multidisciplinary team, helping develop robust, production-ready systems that combine perception, planning, control, manipulation and autonomous behaviours.
The Role
As a Senior Robotics Engineer, you'll take ownership of challenging robotics problems and help transform prototypes into reliable capabilities deployed on physical robotic platforms.
You'll contribute across a sophisticated robotics stack and collaborate closely with AI, software, hardware and systems engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deploy robotics software for advanced robotic systems
- Integrate software across perception, planning, control and behaviour layers
- Debug complex issues spanning hardware, software and networking
- Improve system reliability, maintainability and observability
- Develop new robotic capabilities and autonomous behaviours
- Support deployment and testing on physical robotic platforms
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technical leadership
- Mentor engineers and uphold high software engineering standards
Requirements
- Strong C++ and Python development experience
- Extensive ROS 2 experience
- Experience developing and debugging real-world robotic systems
- Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent systems integration and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to deployment
Desirable Experience
Experience in one or more of the following areas would be highly beneficial:
- ros2_control
- EtherCAT and hardware integration
- Manipulation and motion planning
- Whole-body control
- Calibration and robot bring-up
- State estimation and sensor fusion
- Behaviour trees and task execution
- Robotics networking and distributed systems
- Reliability engineering and diagnostics
- Safety systems and fault recovery
What's on Offer
- Salary dependent on experience
- Equity opportunities
- Private healthcare
- Conference and training budget
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge robotics technology
- Highly collaborative engineering culture
- Direct impact on products deployed in real-world environments