Software Engineer - Workflow Authoring & Deployment

Thehumanoid; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days annual leave

Fully funded private healthcare

Equity sharing

Pension scheme

Free breakfast and lunch

Collaboration with top-tier engineers and researchers

Job summary

Thehumanoid in Greater London is seeking a Software Engineer to work on systems for deploying and managing robot workflows. This role combines backend services and product interfaces, collaborating closely with robotics, AI, and product teams to build mission-critical systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering skills and familiarity with cloud infrastructure. The position offers meaningful time off, healthcare benefits, and opportunities to influence product development.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar.
• Solid understanding of API design and data modelling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services for robot fleets.
• Develop workflow authoring tooling for operators.
• Own data infrastructure for tracking workflow execution.

Skills

Backend engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar

API design

Distributed systems understanding

Cloud infrastructure and deployment

Frontend to backend stack comfort

Observability and alerting experience

Tools

Containerisation

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

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 Alpha - our rapidly developed humanoid platform now running in real industrial pilots - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

About the role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer to work on the systems that let operators author, deploy, and manage robot workflows at scale. This sits at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product - you'll build the services that coordinate fleets of robots, the tooling that lets operators express what they want robots to do, and the interfaces that give visibility into what's actually happening on the floor.

This is a full-stack role with a strong backend lean. You'll work closely with the robotics, AI, and product teams to build systems that are real-time, multi-tenant, and mission-critical.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain backend services that coordinate robot fleets at runtime: workflow state management, event logging, and the APIs that robots, operators, and third-party systems use to interact with the platform

• Develop and evolve the workflow authoring experience - tooling that lets operators define, deploy, and incrementally refine robot workflows in natural language, without needing to understand the underlying representation

• Build on-robot services that enable remote control, workflow execution, state reporting, and diagnostics

• Own the data infrastructure that tracks workflow execution: event logs, conformance metrics, and the audit trails that let operators understand what robots are doing and why

• Build and maintain reliable, secure cloud infrastructure for running these services, including deployment pipelines, observability, and alerting

• Implement testing and validation pipelines to catch regressions across the UI, backend, and on-robot services - including simulation-based workflow validation before changes hit production

What We’re Looking For

• Strong backend engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar

• Solid understanding of API design, data modelling, and the tradeoffs in distributed systems (consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment: containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code

• Comfort working across the stack from frontend to backend

• Experience with observability and alerting in systems where failures have real operational consequences

• Good instincts for where complexity should live and how to keep systems debuggable and understandable as they grow

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with workflow engines, state machines, or coordination systems — ideally in a multi-agent or fleet context

• Experience building operator-facing tooling: dashboards, authoring UIs, or systems that translate human intent into structured actions

• Exposure to LLM-based agentic systems, particularly using AI to generate or modify structured representations from natural language

• Experience integrating with third-party enterprise systems (WMS, ERP, or similar)

• Background in robotics or real-time systems where execution state and side-effects need to be managed carefully

What We Offer

• Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of annual leave (accrued), 15 days of paid sick leave, and paid company holidays.

• Fully funded private healthcare for UK employees, with broad provider access, virtual and in‑person care, and strong mental health and serious illness support.

• Equity included–we believe builders should share in what they build.

• Pension scheme with a total 8% contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.

• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in‑office.

• Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.

• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.