Founding Robotics Engineer – Systems & Sensing

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗱𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀

Adexis is a London-based frontier research lab solving dexterous manipulation. Our mission is to bring machines the power of touch on the path to physical general intelligence, bringing about a future of abundance.

We are building a lean, talent dense organisation, inspired by history's great groups — the Manhattan Project, Apollo, Bell Labs, Skunkworks — where aggregating outlier individuals drove collective output that changed history.

We are backed by leading investors and researchers from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Google Deepmind and more.

𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 – 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴

As a founding hire, you will build the real-time systems that connect our models to the physical world: the inference node that runs policies on hardware and the sensor nodes that feed perception and contact data back in. If the research is the brain, you build the nervous system.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼

- Build and own the inference node: take a trained policy and run it on a real robot under hard real-time constraints.

- Build sensor nodes that acquire, synchronize, and stream multi-modal data — including high-rate contact and force signals — with tight timing guarantees.

- Own synchronization and latency across the stack; make sure every signal is where it needs to be when it needs to be there.

- Integrate hardware — arms, hands, and sensors — into one reliable system, and build the tooling that makes data collection and deployment repeatable.

- Be the bridge between research and hardware: turn a model that works in a notebook into something that runs on a robot all day.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂

- Have built real-time robotics systems and shipped them onto hardware that runs reliably, not just in a demo.

- Are fluent in low-latency systems programming and the realities of sensor timing, synchronization, and drift.

- Have integrated unfamiliar sensors and actuators from datasheet to working node.

- Care about robustness and clean interfaces — other people's research depends on your systems not flaking.

- Bonus: real-time control, high-rate sensor pipelines, distributed data acquisition, hardware bring-up.

We seek a high ownership individual up to the task. This is a founding research role and will be compensated accordingly with equity.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀

- Salary: £100-175k

- Equity: 0.25-2%

- Private healthcare with medical history disregarded

- Top of the line equipment