Robotics Engineer — Autonomous Construction Robotics (ROS 2)

XYZ Reality Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare with Vitality

Office near Angel station

Lunch Thursdays and team events

Annual salary reviews

Make a real-world impact

Job summary

XYZ Reality is expanding its robotics programme to operate autonomously on challenging construction sites. As a Robotics Engineer you will work hands-on with robot hardware in our London office, using ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Lab, and learning-based control to develop reliable robot behaviors.

You will test in real environments, integrate with XYZ software, and collaborate with site teams to turn BIM-derived locations into mission plans, with a focus on safety and repeatable performance.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Computer Science, Mechatronics or a related discipline, or equivalent applied robotics experience.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS 2

Robotics knowledge

Control theory

Education

MSc or PhD in Robotics/Controls/CS/Mechatronics

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Lab

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Job description

XYZ Reality is expanding its robotics programme to operate autonomously on challenging construction sites. As a Robotics Engineer you will work hands-on with robot hardware in our London office, using ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Lab, and learning-based control to develop reliable robot behaviors.

You will test in real environments, integrate with XYZ software, and collaborate with site teams to turn BIM-derived locations into mission plans, with a focus on safety and repeatable performance.