Founding Research Scientist
LB646
Posted: 04/08/2026
- £100,000 - £130,000
- London Area
Founding Research Scientist
Help define the research agenda for one of the UK's most ambitious Physical AI startups.
Most researchers spend years contributing to someone else's roadmap. Here, you'll help create it. You'll own research direction from day one, working with real robots, publishing meaningful results and shaping the technology that underpins the next generation of intelligent machines. Based on the uploaded job specification.
What's in it for you?
- Founding role with significant equity
- Define research strategy from day one
- Work with cutting-edge robot learning models
- Run experiments on real robotic hardware
- Opportunity to publish impactful research while building real products
What you'll be doing
- Leading research into robot learning, world models and VLA systems
- Designing evaluation frameworks for physical AI
- Developing new approaches to data collection and model training
- Running experiments on real robotic platforms
- Publishing technical papers and helping establish the company's research reputation
What you'll bring
- Research experience in machine learning, robotics or computer vision
- Hands-on experience with modern deep learning techniques
- Strong mathematical and experimental thinking
- Experience designing and evaluating ML models
- A desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast-moving startup
- Publications, benchmark experience or open-source contributions would be advantageous but aren't essential.
Anna Heneghan
Head of Machine Learning & AI Recruitment