Software Engineer

TL;DR This role is for you if you thrive on variety and love tackling the messy, real-world challenges that come from integrating software with hardware. You don't need to have worked in robotics before, but you've got to be a top notch software engineer. No two days will be the same, but you can expect to:

• Solve challenging software problems end-to-end: spec, implement, test, and maintain robotics systems.
• Jump into unfamiliar software domains at breakneck speed - one day SLAM, the next, motor control for new wheels.
• Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary engineers, product, and customer teams to iterate and improve solutions.
• Deliver real-world impact, today, using cutting-edge robotics.

About Paddington Robotics

At P9R7, we’re building robots that can handle the messy, unpredictable and chaotic real world! Our mission: become the UK’s go-to applied AI robotics team - and we’ll do whatever it takes to get there.

What we actually do:

• Build insane AI models and hardware that let robots work safely alongside humans - lifting, moving, and getting stuff done better and faster.
• Spend lots of time on Customer sites, to better understand and solve for the messy chaos of most environments.
• Think 10+ years ahead, reimagining manual labour and creating robots that become complementary assistants for labour intensive and physically demanding tasks

We’re a small, dynamic team from Amazon, InstaDeep, Imperial, UCL, and Cambridge to name a few, united by one of the founders of Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter).

Software Engineer @ Paddington Robotics

We’re hiring a Software Engineer (graduate / 1-3 years experience) to own a key part of our robotics system end-to-end. You’ll spec it, implement it, test it, maintain it - and live and breathe the customer problem it solves on site. Our work is highly disciplinary, so you might be problem solving across a range of areas:

• Low-level microcontrollers
• Image processing & computer vision
• High-performance computing, CUDA
• Machine learning & reinforcement learning

Ideally, you’ve worked across some of these areas before - perhaps you’ve led a workstream or project that touches multiple domains. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

About you

• You live and breathe code: Masters in Computer Science (or related field), expert in Python (and its libraries), familiar with C/C++. You are possibly a graduate, or have 1-3 years experience as a software engineer.
• You’ve built and shipped software end-to-end, whether in university projects, in industry, academia or a scrappy startup (even better!).
• You’re highly collaborative, and love working with others: sharing knowledge, learning from and teaching others, and embracing feedback
• You’re a fast learner, and low ego: and ask all the questions!
• You’re a practical problem solver: you can take your expertise and tackle engineering challenges pragmatically in messy, real-world environments.

Above all, we’re building a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers. To thrive here, you are:

• Highly ambitious: comfortable taking a project from concept to completion - you do whatever it takes to win.
• Self-directed and proactive: you thrive in a dynamic, unpredictable, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Enthusiastic team players: you ask questions, help others, and communicate effectively.

What will impress us

We love proactive doers. Show us what you’ve built - whether it’s interfaces, projects, or experiments. Tell us why our mission excites you. Be bold, be creative, and don’t feel embarrassed to stand out from the crowd.

Location

Our London office is right by Portobello Road. We work full-time, and largely on-site (4 days a week). Expect vibrant startup energy with a team that knows when to laugh, and when to buckle down.