xyz-reality - Robotics Engineer
Requirements
• MSc or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Computer Science, Mechatronics or a related discipline, or equivalent applied robotics experience. Industry experience is not required. • Hands-on experience building, programming or directly controlling a physical robot, from an academic project, research lab or industry. • Strong Python and C++, practical ROS experience (ideally ROS 2) and working knowledge of kinematics, coordinate frames, feedback control, state estimation, path planning and robot hardware. • Experience training or tuning robot control policies (e.g. reinforcement or imitation learning) using NVIDIA Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim or similar tools, with a rigorous experimental approach. • The right to work in the UK. We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. • ROS / ROS 2, Python & C++ • Robot control, kinematics, state estimation & path planning • NVIDIA Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim, reinforcement or imitation learning • Sim-to-real transfer on physical hardware (desirable) • Navigation, SLAM, perception & sensor fusion (desirable) • Mobile or field robotics, BIM/CAD or construction technology (desirable)
Responsibilities
• Integrate robots with XYZ’s software, bringing up ROS / ROS 2 interfaces, robot control, sensors, compute and data flows, and building repeatable tools for bring-up, configuration, logging and monitoring. • Establish reliable baseline control and develop task-specific behaviours for navigation, positioning and capture, training and tuning control policies in simulation and validating them on hardware. • Develop localisation-aware path planning, waypoint execution and obstacle handling, working with project and site teams to turn work plans and BIM-derived locations into robot missions. • Integrate capture payloads so images, pose, timing and mission status flow reliably into XYZ’s construction progress workflows, working with navigation, SLAM and perception colleagues. • Design test scenarios and measure mission completion, coverage, localisation quality, intervention, recovery and repeatability, improving the system through measured iterations. • Bring technical expertise and new ideas to the programme, comparing scripted, motion-planning and learning-based approaches and helping shape what comes next.
Benefits
• 🏝️ 25 days annual leave + public holidays • 🩺 Private healthcare with Vitality • 🎄 Christmas shutdown days on top of leave allowance (2–4 per year usually) • 🚇 Office located within a 5-minute walk from Angel station • 🥳 Summer & Christmas staff parties • 🍣 Free lunch on Thursdays, followed by after-work drinks • 💰 Employee referral scheme • 🚀 Make a real-world impact by helping transform the construction industry
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