Senior Autonomy Engineer - SLAM & Navigation

Humanoid; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stock options

23 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private healthcare

Pension 8%

Free daily meals in office

Direct access to founding leadership

Job summary

Humanoid is hiring a Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on SLAM and Navigation to advance the world’s most capable humanoid platform. You will lead robust state estimation, long-term mapping, and localisation loops, blending traditional geometry with modern machine learning to achieve reliable trajectories in real-world environments.

You will integrate foundation geometry models into localisation, build auto-labeling pipelines, and deploy spatial AI software on physical robot hardware, ensuring

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in classical SLAM and multi-view geometry.
• Experience with back-end map optimization and long-term mapping in changing environments.
• Practical experience applying ML to geometric problems.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python, with production-grade code.
• Hands-on experience deploying navigation on physical robot hardware.
• Ability to translate cutting-edge spatial AI research into production.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale SLAM pipelines ensuring accurate localisation and state estimation.
• Integrate foundation geometry models and ML into localisation loops.
• Architect and maintain long-term mapping systems across changing environments.
• Build auto-labeling data pipelines for geometric datasets.
• Bridge classical geometry with deep learning for metric trajectory mapping.
• Deploy and benchmark spatial AI on robot hardware with low latency.

Skills

SLAM & Navigation

C++

Python

State estimation

Odometry

Sensor fusion

Tools

Map optimization

Job description

Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

About The Role

We're hiring a Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on SLAM & Navigation to join our team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between classical spatial geometry and next-generation AI. You will lead the design and development of robust state estimation, long-term mapping, and localisation loops, with a specific focus on integrating modern machine learning techniques and foundation geometry models into our core navigation stack. Your work will ensure our robots possess rock-solid spatial awareness and execute highly reliable trajectories over extended deployments in complex, real-world environments.

What You'll Do

• Design and scale robust SLAM pipelines that maintain highly accurate localisation and state estimation across dynamic physical spaces.
• Integrate foundation geometry models and modern ML techniques into the localisation loop to enhance traditional spatial tracking, data association, and visual odometry.
• Architect and maintain robust long-term mapping systems that enable robots to autonomously update, manage, and scale spatial maps across changing environments over time.
• Build and scale auto-labeling data pipelines that leverage foundation geometry models to generate high-fidelity spatial ground truth for downstream ML training.
• Bridge classical geometry with deep learning architectures, building hybrid systems that map raw sensor data into globally consistent metric trajectories.
• Deploy and benchmark spatial AI software directly on physical robot hardware, ensuring deterministic, ultra-low latency execution on edge compute.
• Translate cutting‑edge spatial AI research into production reality, continuously evaluating breakthroughs in geometric learning to guide our navigation roadmap.

What We're Looking For

• Deep expertise in classical SLAM and multi‑view geometry, including extensive hands‑on experience with state estimation, visual/LiDAR odometry, and multi‑sensor fusion.
• Experience handling backend map optimization and solving the unique structural challenges associated with long‑term mapping in large or changing physical environments.
• Practical experience applying modern ML to geometric problems, with exposure to utilizing or adapting newer foundation geometry models.
• Proven ability to build scalable data pipelines or auto‑labeling workflows tailored for geometric and spatial datasets.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python, with a track record of writing clean, highly parallelized, production‑grade algorithmic code.
• Hands‑on experience deploying navigation systems on physical hardware, with a deep understanding of the practical edge constraints of real‑world robotics.
• A research‑to‑production mindset, capable of tearing through the latest CVPR/ICRA papers and figuring out exactly how to make those models run with bulletproof reliability.

What We Offer

• Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
• 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
• Private healthcare, including virtual and in‑person care.
• Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in‑office.
• Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world‑class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
• Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.