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5 Hard Tech Roles Worth Applying To This Week

By HelenaDW

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.

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