Five open positions across Britain's hard tech sector this week: two software, two hardware, one ops.
Software Engineering & AI
Whole-Body Control & Safe Reinforcement Learning Engineer — Humanoid
Humanoid is building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial automation, with a 200+ person team including alumni from Tesla and Boston Dynamics. This role focuses on safe RL and whole-body control for their HMND 01 platform.
- Location: London (On-site)
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Evaluation — Wayve
Wayve builds AI-first autonomous driving using end-to-end deep learning rather than hand-coded rules, backed by over $1B from SoftBank and NVIDIA. This founding staff role builds model introspection tools (saliency, attention visualisation, latent diagnostics) to reveal how their driving models make decisions.
- Location: London
Hardware Engineering
Digital Design Verification Engineer — Olix
Olix is building an Optical Tensor Processing Unit that uses photonics for AI inference, targeting shipments by 2027. This role owns end-to-end verification of high-throughput digital pipelines in advanced CMOS nodes, working where digital, optical, and mixed-signal domains intersect.
- Location: Bristol
- Salary: £125,000–£180,000/yr
- Visa sponsorship: Yes
Senior Power Systems Engineer — IONATE
IONATE builds smart transformer hardware and AI-powered software to modernise century-old power infrastructure for data centres and electricity grids. This senior role focuses on power systems engineering for their grid technology.
- Location: London (Hybrid)
Commercial & Operations
Deployment Strategist — Arondite
Arondite builds software connecting disparate autonomous systems (drones, ground robots, AI sensors) for defence applications, founded by former Palantir and BAE Systems engineers. This role shapes how their platform is deployed with military customers.
- Location: London
Browse the full board at hardtechuk.com/jobs. New roles added throughout the week.