Principal Robotic Architect – Research Development
Do you want to work on the forefront of Robotics?
Extend Robotics is a fast-growing technology company on a mission to scale the world’s labour capacity by extending human capabilities beyond physical presence. We are a special group of ambitious individuals from around the world to solve problems with first principle and world class technology. We put human in the centre of technologies, and passionate about metaverse, robotics and artificial intelligence.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the biggest revolution of humanity. We work at extremely fast pace and offer a friendly working environment, encouraging innovative ideas and work on a world-leading technology products and services.
We’ve got an exciting opening for a Principal Robotic Architect that will be responsible for the technical design and programming of future robotic systems. We focus on outcomes that solve real needs for our partners and customers.
You will be working closely with the mechanical development and virtual reality teams. You will be part of a rapid prototype development cycle and benefit from modern in-house development facilities.
We also offer a friendly and flexible working environment, freedom to explore ideas and work on a world-leading robotics products and services.
Roles & Responsibilities:
You will work tightly with production gaming, telepresence team and project management team. You will be responsible for:
· You will own a few core-capabilities development of our next generation robotic control and AI software, aiming to advance the state-of-the-art.
· Define and setup foundational architecture at the software level to deliver robustness and scalability at production quality.
· You will work closely with product team to integrate the capabilities into the flagship products.
· Contribute to the product roadmap and technology plan and project proposals.
· Produce packaged libraries and technical documents.
Requirements:
· Expert in high performance real-time robotic control, perception and navigation tasks.
· Expert experience on inverse kinematics/dynamics applied in force and full-body control scenarios, such as bio-Ik
· Strong control theory such as MPC and modern learning-based control.
· Experience in human-robot interactions, such as hand retargeting and full body mapping control.
· Expert experience of ROS2 architecture, with knowledge of standard ROS packages, such as Move It! and
· C++, C# in Unity, python, Linux bash scripts.
· Experience working with agile development practices, git version control, Travis CI and build farm.
· Experience on Git Hub, Git Book, Jira
· Able to listen, absorb new ideas and extrapolate novel solutions.
· Passionate about robotics and willing to tackle exciting challenges.
· Strong verbal and written communications skills presentation skills
· Fluency in English
Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive basic salary
• Flexible working hours & working from home
• Competitive company benefits
• Share Option Scheme

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Additional pay:

• Performance bonus

Benefits:

• Life insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Reading: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Agile development practices: 2 years (preferred)
• high performance real-time robotic control: 3 years (preferred)
• inverse kinematics/dynamics: 3 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: In person