Robotics Engineer

OpenSourced - Search & Selection; West of England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenSourced - Search & Selection is seeking a Senior Robot Learning Engineer in Bristol to lead the development of cutting-edge behavior models for humanoid robotics. You'll advance the deployment from research to real-world systems and work in a collaborative high-performing team.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing sector, driving innovation in robotics with strong career progression.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in robot learning and real-world deployment.
• Expertise in reinforcement learning, diffusion models, or behaviour cloning.
• Experience with large-scale model training.

Responsibilities

• Architect and train large-scale robot learning models.
• Develop diffusion transformer and VLA-based policies.
• Deploy policies onto physical robotic systems.

Skills

Robot learning

Reinforcement learning

Python

PyTorch

Sim-to-real pipelines

Education

MSc or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, or similar

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Location: Bristol (On-site)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Robot Learning Engineer to join an advanced robotics organisation developing next-generation humanoid systems.

You will lead the development of large-scale behaviour models for robotic manipulation, bridging cutting-edge machine learning research with real-world deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and train large-scale robot learning models
• Develop diffusion transformer and VLA-based policies
• Advance reinforcement learning pipelines
• Build sim-to-real transfer capabilities
• Deploy policies onto physical robotic systems

Skills & Experience Required

• MSc or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, or similar
• Strong experience in robot learning and real-world deployment
• Expertise in reinforcement learning, diffusion models, or behaviour cloning
• Strong Python and PyTorch experience
• Experience with large-scale model training
• Experience with humanoid robotics
• Sim-to-real pipelines (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim)
• Published research or equivalent practical impact
• Work on cutting-edge robotics technology
• Opportunity to publish research
• Collaborative, high-performing team
• Career progression in a fast-growing sector