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You’ll also be passionate about bringing robots to life. No two days will be the same, but you can expect to:\nSolve challenging software problems end-to-end: spec, implement, test, and maintain robotics systems.\n\nJump into unfamiliar software domains at breakneck speed - one month you might be optimising SLAM algorithms and the next, developing new navigation algorithms.\n\nCollaborate closely with multi-disciplinary engineers, product, and customer teams to iterate and improve solutions.\n\nDeliver real-world impact, today, using cutting-edge robotics.\n\nAbout Paddington Robotics\nAt P9R7, we’re building robots that can handle the messy, unpredictable and chaotic real world! We believe that by deploying today, we reveal second-order effects and edge cases that can’t be seen in the lab or the sim. Our mission: become the UK’s go-to applied AI robotics team - and we’ll go above and beyond to get there.\nWhat we actually do:\nBuild AI models and hardware that let robots work safely alongside humans - lifting, moving, and getting stuff done better and faster.\n\nSpend lots of time on Customer sites, to better understand and solve for the messy chaos of most environments.\n\nThink 10+ years ahead, reimagining manual labour and creating robots that become complementary assistants for labour intensive and physically demanding tasks.\n\nWe’re a small, dynamic team from Amazon, InstaDeep, Imperial, UCL, and Cambridge to name a few, united by one of the founders of Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter).\nRobotics Software Engineer @ Paddington Robotics\nWe’re hiring a Robotics Software Engineer to own a key part of our robotics system end-to-end. You’ll spec it, implement it, test it, maintain it - and live and breathe the customer problem it solves on site. Our work is highly inter-disciplinary, so you may have experience across these, or other areas:\nLow-level microcontrollers\n\nImage processing & computer vision\n\nHigh-performance computing, CUDA\n\nMachine learning & reinforcement learning\n\nWe are looking for someone who has experience working with robotics. 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