Machine Learning Scientist - Early Scale-Up
LB704
Posted: 08/09/2026
- £90,000 - £130,000
- London Area
Machine Learning Research Scientist
Help define the research agenda for Physical AI from day one.
We’re hiring a Founding Research Scientist for an ambitious UK startup building the models that will enable robots to understand, learn and act in the real world.
You’ll tackle open-ended research across robot learning, vision-language-action models and world models - developing new ideas, testing them on real robotic systems and turning promising research into working technology.
What you’ll do
- Lead research across robot learning, VLAs and world models
- Develop new model architectures, training methods and data strategies
- Explore how models can generalise across tasks, environments and embodiments
- Take ideas from papers and first principles to real-world robotic experiments
- Help define the company’s long-term research direction
- Publish meaningful research
What we’re looking for
- Strong research background in ML, robotics or computer vision
- Deep understanding of modern deep learning
- Experience training and evaluating ML models
- Excellent mathematical and experimental instincts
- Ability to form hypotheses and design rigorous experiments
- Curiosity for genuinely unsolved research problems
Why join?
- Founding role + significant equity
- Define the research agenda from the ground up
- Work at the frontier of Physical AI
- Experiment on real robotic hardware
- Small, highly technical founding team
- Genuine research freedom and ownership
Anna Heneghan
Head of Machine Learning & AI Recruitment