Member of Technical Staff – Research

Adexis; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 150 000 - 225 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Salary £150-225k

Equity 0.5–2.5%

Private healthcare (AXA)

Top-of-the-line equipment

Résumé du poste

Adexis, a London-based frontier research lab, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff - Research to lead end-to-end work on visuo-tactile foundation models and dexterous manipulation.

You will own architecture, fusion of vision and touch, and the post-training stack to deploy policies. This is a founding role with equity and a competitive compensation package.

Bring experience with large multimodal models, imitation learning, and real-world robotics; teleoperation and real-world RL are a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience training large multimodal or sequence models from scratch.
• Ability to design data mixes, curricula, and debugging workflows.
• Strong intuition for multimodal fusion and dexterous manipulation.
• Experience transferring policies from simulation to real hardware.

Responsabilités

• Own the model architecture for visual and tactile signals, including tokenization and fusion.
• Make the hard representational calls: define contact signals and time alignment between modalities.
• Own the post-training stack to convert a pretrained model into a deployable policy.
• Design the recipe: data collection strategy, imitation and reinforcement or self-improvement stages.
• Bridge sim-to-real and human-to-robot gaps to ensure policies survive real hardware.
• Define evaluation criteria to detect policies that look good offline but fail on hardware.

Connaissances

Multimodal models

Sequence models

Policy learning / RL

Imitation learning

Description du poste

About Adexis

Adexis is a London-based frontier research lab solving dexterous manipulation. Our mission is to bring machines the power of touch on the path to physical general intelligence, bringing about a future of abundance.

We are building a lean, talent dense organisation, inspired by history's great groups - the Manhattan Project, Apollo, Bell Labs, Skunkworks - where aggregating outlier individuals drove collective output that changed history.

We are backed by leading investors, and researchers from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Google Deepmind and more.

Member of Technical Staff - Research

As a founding research hire, you could work across pre or post-training for our visuo-tactile foundation model. This might include:

• Own the model architecture end to end: how visual and tactile signals are tokenized, fused or kept separate, and learned jointly.

• Make the hard representational calls: what a contact signal is at the token level, how it aligns in time with vision, and how the two modalities trade off when they disagree.

• Own the post-training stack: how we adapt a pretrained model into a control policy using teleoperated demonstration data.

• Design the recipe: demonstration collection strategy, imitation and any reinforcement or self-improvement stages, and the full sequence from foundation model to deployable policy.

• Close the sim-to-real and human-to-robot gaps: make a policy learned from human demonstration survive contact with the real world.

• Define what good behaviour is and build the evaluation that catches a policy that looks good offline and fails on hardware.

You might be a fit if you

• Have trained large multimodal or sequence models from scratch and owned the recipe - the data mix, curricula, ablations, debugging silent failures.

• Have strong instincts for multimodal fusion.

• Have trained manipulation policies and put them on real hardware - you know the specific pain of a policy that demos well and dies on contact.

• Know imitation learning deeply and know when reinforcement is worth the instability.

• Have a point of view on learning dexterous, contact-rich skills rather than pick-and-place.

• Bonus: teleoperation systems, learning from human demonstration, real-world RL.

We seek a high ownership individual up to the task of defining this vision. This is a founding research role and will be compensated accordingly with equity.

Compensation & benefits

• Salary: £150-225k

• Equity: 0.5-2.5%

• Private healthcare with AXA

• Top of the line equipment