Five open positions across Britain's hard tech sector this week, two software, two hardware, one ops.
Software Engineering & AI
Applied AI/ML Engineer (Agents) — CuspAI
Build planning models, multi-tool agents and self-improving systems at CuspAI, the Cambridge founded materials discovery company that raised a $450M Series B and runs an AI Materials Foundry with NVIDIA and Samsung.
- Location: London (Hybrid)
Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software — Wayve
Lead the team behind the software that runs on Wayve's vehicle compute. Wayve trains an end-to-end AI driver directly from camera data and closed a $1.05B Series C backed by SoftBank and NVIDIA.
- Location: London (On-site)
Hardware Engineering
Alpha Plant Systems Lead — Proxima Fusion
Own the tritium fuel cycle, high voltage power, heating and cryogenic systems for Proxima's Alpha machine. The Max Planck spinout is building a commercial stellarator and runs a UK site at the Culham campus.
- Location: Oxford (On-site)
Radio Frequency Engineer — Helsing
Work on sensing and electronic warfare hardware at Europe's most valuable defence tech company, now €12B valued, with £350M committed to UK investment and MoD contracts including the ASGARD programme.
- Location: London (Hybrid)
Commercial & Operations
Mission Operations Manager, Europe — Anduril
Run deployment and sustainment of Anduril's autonomous defence systems with European customers. The company's Lattice OS connects hardware across air, land, sea and space, and revenue reached roughly $1B in 2024.
- Location: London (On-site)
Browse the full board at hardtechuk.com/jobs. New roles added throughout the week.