Senior GPU Physics & Real-Time Robotics Engineer

Dex; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex in Cambridge, UK is seeking an elite senior individual contributor to own the performance of the full simulation and edge runtime stack for robotic systems.

You will tackle high-throughput GPU physics, mentor early-career engineers through pairing and design reviews, and collaborate with the founders to push code that runs on real robots in the lab.

The on-site role offers broad autonomy and a chance to shape the architecture of next-gen robotic software with a tight-knit engineering team.

Qualifications

• Proven production systems experience delivering measurable speedups.
• Background in high-throughput/low-latency domains (graphics, HPC, real-time systems).
• Proven ability to lift engineering teams through pairing and code reviews.
• On-site Cambridge, UK; collaboration with founders and robotics hardware.

Responsibilities

• Profile, diagnose, and optimize high-throughput GPU physics simulation and edge runtimes.
• Refactor critical paths to maximize hardware utilization, focusing on memory layout and SIMD.
• Deploy and validate real-time execution pipelines on physical robots in the lab.
• Mentor early-career engineers through pairing, reviews, and task decomposition.
• Collaborate with founders to review architecture and push simulation performance.

Skills

Modern C++ mastery

Hardware-aware parallelism

Profiling and optimization

Cache-conscious memory layout

Mentoring and pairing

Job description

Dex in Cambridge, UK is seeking an elite senior individual contributor to own the performance of the full simulation and edge runtime stack for robotic systems.

You will tackle high-throughput GPU physics, mentor early-career engineers through pairing and design reviews, and collaborate with the founders to push code that runs on real robots in the lab.

The on-site role offers broad autonomy and a chance to shape the architecture of next-gen robotic software with a tight-knit engineering team.