Senior Autonomy Engineer - Spatial Intelligence
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026. Humanoid scores A on the Alion truth index.
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND-01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior/Staff Autonomy Engineer focused on Spatial Intelligence to join our team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between classical spatial geometry and next-generation AI. You will lead the design and development of robust state estimation, long-term mapping, and localisation loops, with a specific focus on integrating modern machine learning techniques and foundation geometry models into our core navigation stack. Your work will ensure our robots possess rock-solid spatial awareness and execute highly reliable trajectories over extended deployments in complex, real-world environments.
What You'll Do
Architect the spatial intelligence layer that unifies 3D geometry with semantic scene understanding to ensure safe and efficient navigation and locomotion in complex environments
Develop advanced 3D spatial reasoning capabilities that provide our robots with long-term persistent spatial memory and a deep contextual awareness of their surroundings.
Own the entire perception lifecycle by training large-scale multimodal networks and deploying and integrating them for ultra-low latency performance on edge hardware
Bridge the gap between conceptual research and physical reality by implementing state-of-the-art 3D representations that track and interpret the environment state
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bridge the gap between large-scale model training and reliable robot integration.
Stay ahead of the field, rapidly evaluate new model architectures, benchmarks, and datasets to guide our embodied AI roadmap.
What We're Looking For
Exceptional software engineering skills with a proven track record of shipping complex ML systems into production.
Strong background in 3D scene understanding and the design of efficient spatial data structures.
Deep experience in machine learning for vision or embodied AI, ideally with large models (VLMs, transformers, or multi-modal architectures).
Proficiency in PyTorch and hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and deploying large-scale ML systems.
High-impact individual contributor capable of taking projects from conceptual research to high-performance robot code.
Comfortable working in a fast-moving, research-driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools.
What We Offer
Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas-New Year shutdown).
Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.