Software Engineer, Robotics

CircuitHub, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

CircuitHub is hiring a senior robotics software engineer to architect the robot operating system and build the core abstractions for modeling robots, tools and jobs. You will design how work is planned, dispatched and how state is shared across a production-grade robotics platform.

You will bring in vision algorithms, integrate large models into the control loop, and drive real-time coordination of a fleet of movers, gantries and printers while ensuring observability through simulation and

Qualifications

• Architect a large-scale robot code base that runs on real hardware in production.
• Strong software engineering in Python and Rust (or C++), with emphasis on types, testing, concurrency and clean architecture.
• Experience with motion/path planning, multi-robot coordination, controls, perception, scheduling.
• Hands-on experience applying large models (LLMs or vision-language models) to robotics.
• You use coding agents to move faster and take ownership of outputs.

Responsibilities

• Architect the robot operating system: model robots, cameras, tools and jobs; define how work is planned, dispatched and how state is shared.
• Integrate new vision algorithms into the control loop to locate and center parts and verify placements for production.
• Program robots to use large models inside the robots: interpreting datasheets, evaluating picks, diagnosing faults and recovery.
• Coordinate a fleet of movers, gantries, printers and ovens without collisions or deadlocks.
• Design clean interfaces between high-level planning and real-time controllers.
• Make the system observable with simulation, tracing and replay to prove changes before deployment.

Job description

About CircuitHub

CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform that makes small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production: a 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries.

About CircuitHub

CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform that makes small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production: a 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries. We've raised $45M from top-tier investors including Plural, Y Combinator and Google Ventures, and we're already profitable. Our customers include a major EV maker, a top AI lab and many of the worlds largest companies. The Grid isn't a prototype. It's live, scaling fast and delivering real revenue, and we're building the team that will scale it further.

What You'll Do

• Architect the robot operating system. Design the core abstractions: how robots, cameras, tools and jobs are modelled, how work is planned and dispatched, how state is shared and how failures are handled. Decide what belongs in Python and what needs Rust.
• Bring in new vision. Integrate novel computer vision algorithms into the control loop, from finding and centring parts to checking every pick and placement, and make them fast and reliable enough for production.
• Build agentic robotics. Put large models to work in the robots themselves: programming a new part from its datasheet, judging a pick from a camera image, diagnosing a fault and recovering from it, with evals that prove it works before it runs alone.
• Move a fleet. Route dozens of movers at once without collisions or deadlocks, and coordinate gantries, printers and ovens around them.
• Bridge to real time. Design clean interfaces between high-level planning and the real-time controllers driving the motors.
• Make it observable. Simulation, tracing and replay, so every change is proven before it reaches the factory and every failure can be explained.

What we look for

• You've worked on, and ideally architected, a large-scale robot code base that ran on real hardware in production.
• Strong software engineering in Python and Rust (or C++ and a willingness to move to Rust). You care about types, testing, concurrency and clear architecture.
• Experience with some of: motion or path planning, multi-robot coordination, controls, perception, scheduling.
• Hands-on experience applying large models (LLMs or vision-language models) to robotics, or a strong drive to.
• You use coding agents to move faster and take full ownership of what they produce.
• You're happy to visit our factories in the US and UK to see your code run.

Stack

• Robot software: Python and Rust
• Vision and models: OpenCV, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, Claude and OpenAI APIs
• Planning: multi-agent path-finding, OR-Tools
• Data and observability: PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse
• Agents: Claude Code and Codex throughout

Pay

UK £80k–£125k

• US $125k–$250k, depending on experience, plus equity.

Compensation Range: £80K - £125K