Robotics Engineer

Job description

Help shape the future of robotics in construction. ABOUT XYZ REALITY XYZ Reality created the world’s first and only engineering-grade augmented reality solution, purpose-built for the construction industry. Our holographic technology sits within The Atom, a smart, site-safe headset and hardhat, and is used on live projects to ensure schemes are delivered on time and on budget. XYZ has grown to over 150 staff across the UK, US and Europe, and works with mission-critical organisations and construction companies to deliver major projects. THE ROLE Construction sites are some of the hardest environments for robot autonomy: they change every day and are full of clutter, obstacles and people. XYZ Reality’s robotics programme is extending our technology toward robots that can operate reliably in them, from autonomous data collection and construction progress capture through to executing construction tasks. We’re looking for a Robotics Engineer to make that real. You’ll work hands-on with robot hardware in our London office, using a modern stack (ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Lab, learning-based control), and see your work tested in real construction environments, not just in simulation. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role focused on robot software and algorithmic control, backed by a good working knowledge of robot hardware. If you have strong robotics fundamentals from an MSc, PhD or applied research group, love making systems work on real robots, and want your ideas to shape the direction of a programme, we want to hear from you. This is an office-based role at our London site in Angel, Islington. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Integrate robots with XYZ’s software, bringing up ROS / ROS 2 interfaces, robot control, sensors, compute and data flows, and building repeatable tools for bring-up, configuration, logging and monitoring. Establish reliable baseline control and develop task-specific behaviours for navigation, positioning and capture, training and tuning control policies in simulation and validating them on hardware. Develop localisation-aware path planning, waypoint execution and obstacle handling, working with project and site teams to turn work plans and BIM-derived locations into robot missions. Integrate capture payloads so images, pose, timing and mission status flow reliably into XYZ’s construction progress workflows, working with navigation, SLAM and perce…