Robotics Teleoperation Engineer — Real-Time Control & UX

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

blebleeding-edge projects

Motivated team

Job summary

Grid Dynamics seeks an experienced Robotics Control Engineer in London to develop teleoperation for manipulation, mobility, and loco-manipulation. You’ll integrate VR/ gloves/ haptics and design operator workflows, balancing human input with reliable robotic control.

You will work with controls, hardware, and operations teams to push safety, latency, and reliability. This onsite role is based in the client lab in London.

Qualifications

• Strong robotics fundamentals including kinematics and state estimation.
• Experience building teleoperation systems or human-robot interfaces.
• Ability to write reliable software in C++ and/or Python with ROS/ROS2.
• Good intuition for human-in-the-loop dynamics and trust formation.
• Quality mindset with testing, logging, observability, and tuning.
• Strong debugging across the stack from inputs to hardware behavior.
• Comfort iterating on real robots and turning prototypes into robust features.
• Clear communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop teleoperation capabilities for manipulation, mobility, and loco-manipulation.
• Design operator UIs and input mappings to reduce cognitive load.
• Integrate input devices like VR controllers, gloves, haptics into the stack.
• Translate high-frequency inputs into stable robot commands.
• Build real-time data streaming, calibration, and logging infrastructure.
• Develop shared-autonomy features blending human intent with automation.
• Create safe boundaries, alerts, and recovery flows for operators.
• Define quality metrics for latency, reliability, and observability.
• Stress-test on real hardware and in simulation.
• Collaborate with controls, manipulation, hardware, operations teams.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

Realtime systems

Haptics

Tools

ROS

RTOS

Job description

Grid Dynamics seeks an experienced Robotics Control Engineer in London to develop teleoperation for manipulation, mobility, and loco-manipulation. You’ll integrate VR/ gloves/ haptics and design operator workflows, balancing human input with reliable robotic control.

You will work with controls, hardware, and operations teams to push safety, latency, and reliability. This onsite role is based in the client lab in London.