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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.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - Software & Autonomy to support the definition, architecture, integration, and verification of the software systems that enable our humanoid robotic platform.\nThe role will work across perception, localisation, navigation, artificial intelligence, motion planning, controls, ROS 2 platform software, simulation, deployment, and diagnostics. You will collaborate with software leads and subject matter experts to translate product and operational needs into coherent capabilities, requirements, architectures, interfaces, integration plans, and verification criteria.\nThis is a systems engineering position focused on the robot’s software and autonomy stack. It is not primarily a firmware development or electrical engineering role.\nWhat You'll Do\nObtain input from system leaders, product teams, and technical subject matter experts to translate stakeholder needs into clear and verifiable system and software requirements.\n\nDefine the software capabilities required to support humanoid robot behaviours, operational use cases, and product objectives.\n\nDecompose system-level capabilities across perception, navigation, AI, planning, controls, core platform, and supporting software services.\n\nDevelop and maintain the functional and logical architecture of the robot’s software and autonomy stack.\n\nDefine system boundaries, responsibilities, dependencies, and interfaces between software components and technical teams.\n\nEstablish interface requirements covering data ownership, message definitions, coordinate frames, units, timing, latency, synchronization, quality indicators, fault handling, and degraded operation.\n\nSupport architectural decisions involving, middleware, compute allocation, networking, simulation, software deployment, and distributed execution.\n\nCoordinate integration across perception, navigation, AI, controls, platform software, firmware, electronics, sensors, actuators, and mechanical systems.\n\nIdentify cross-team assumptions, dependencies, architectural conflicts, and missing functionality before they become late-stage integration issues.\n\nDefine integration stages, entry and exit criteria, required test environments, and readiness expectations.\n\nLead or support the investigation of complex system-level issues involving multiple software components or interactions between software and hardware.\n\nDefine nominal, degraded, recovery, fallback, and safe-state behaviours for software-intensive functions.\n\nDevelop system-level verification and validation strategies for autonomous robotic capabilities.\n\nEstablish measurable performance and acceptance criteria for perception, localization, navigation, planning, controls, AI, and integrated robot behaviours.\n\nSupport scenario-based testing using simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, laboratory testing, and physical robot testing.\n\nMaintain traceability between use cases, requirements, architecture, implementation, tests, and verification evidence.\n\nWork with safety engineers to ensure software behaviours support system safety requirements and hazard mitigations.\n\nFacilitate requirement, architecture, interface, integration, and system-readiness reviews.\n\nCommunicate technical risks, capability limitations, integration status, and architectural trade-offs to engineering and program leadership.\n\nCoach engineering teams in practical systems engineering methods appropriate for an iterative robotics development environment.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or a related field.\n\nFive or more years of experience in systems engineering, robotics software, software architecture, autonomous systems, or a related technical domain.\n\nExperience working with complex software-intensive or cyber-physical systems composed of multiple interacting subsystems.\n\nStrong knowledge of requirements engineering, architecture definition, interface management, integration, verification, validation, and traceability.\n\nTechnical experience in several of the following areas:\nROS or ROS 2\n\nRobotics software\n\nPerception and sensor fusion\n\nLocalization, mapping, and navigation\n\nMotion or behaviour planning\n\nManipulation, locomotion, or whole-body controls\n\nArtificial intelligence or machine learning\n\nSimulation and virtual testing\n\nDistributed or real-time software systems\n\nAbility to understand and evaluate software behaviour without being the primary implementation owner for every component.\n\nExperience defining measurable acceptance criteria for complex system behaviours.\n\nAbility to investigate issues spanning algorithms, software, computing, networking, firmware, sensors, actuators, and physical robot behaviour.\n\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and technical communication skills. Experience with humanoid robots, mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, or similar systems.\n\nFamiliarity with ROS 2 topics, services, actions, quality-of-service policies, lifecycle management, TF, rosbag, and distributed execution.\n\nFamiliarity with C++, Python, Linux, Git, CI/CD, containers, and modern software development workflows.\n\nExperience with simulation tools such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent platforms.\n\nExperience with SysML, model-based systems engineering, or software architecture modelling.\n\nFamiliarity with functional safety, SOTIF, machinery safety, cybersecurity, or safety assurance for autonomous systems.\n\nUnderstanding of machine-learning performance, uncertainty, dataset coverage, and scenario-based validation.\n\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.\n\n30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas-New Year shutdown).\n\nPrivate healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.\n\nPension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.\n\nFree daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.\n\nWork at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.\n\nReal ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6841,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Equity","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics AI","Logistics & Warehouse Robotics","Industrial Robotics","Humanoid Robots"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-13T08:22:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":29,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.527,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":68,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/humanoid-senior-systems-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/humanoid-senior-systems-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T08:47:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12367,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":35230},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=35230"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhumanoid-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhumanoid-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhumanoid-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/humanoid-senior-systems-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhumanoid-senior-systems-engineer"}]}