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

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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