TL;DR This role is for you if you live and breathe electronics and control, and love tackling the messy challenges that come from building safe and useful systems for the real world. No two days will be the same, but you can expect to:

• Solve electronics and control problems end-to-end: designing, prototyping, building, integrating, and testing new robotic components.
• Jump into unfamiliar domains and upskill at speed - one day integrating new motors or 3D LiDAR, the next, supporting software engineers with increasing system reliability.
• Work closely with Paddington’s other engineers, product, and customer teams to iterate and improve solutions.
• Deliver real-world impact, today, using cutting-edge robotics.

About Paddington Robotics

At P9R7, we’re building robots that can handle the messy, unpredictable and chaotic real world. We are undertaking customer trials, and need your help to deliver on this challenge.

What we do:

• Build AI models and hardware that let robots work safely alongside humans - lifting, moving, and getting stuff done better and faster.
• Spend time on customer sites, to better understand and solve for the messy chaos of most environments.
• Think 10+ years ahead, reimagining manual labour and creating robots that become complementary assistants for labour intensive and physically demanding tasks

We’re team from Amazon, InstaDeep, Imperial, UCL, and Cambridge to name a few, united by one of the founders of Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter).

Electronics & Control Robotics Engineer @ Paddington Robotics

We’re looking for an Electronics & Control Robotics Engineer to lead the charge in iteratively designing, developing, and testing our electronics and safety systems. You’ll be at the heart of ensuring seamless integration of hardware and software, and unlocking safe human interaction.

One week, you might be leading the design of new drive and safety electronics. The next, you’ll be tuning control systems.

Unlike other companies, here you’ll work end-to-end over rapid iterations. You’ll deploy directly to customer sites, live and breathe the problems our robots solve, and own the full lifecycle: spec, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

About you

• You go all-in on safety systems: designing, validating, and obsessing over making hardware and control systems fail-safe, robust, and rock-solid.
• You’ve built or owned safety-critical electronics or control systems before: you’ll likely have spent 3+ years in robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial automation.
• You’re fluent in electronic control systems: from sensors and actuators to fault detection, redundancy, and safe shutdown architectures.
• You’re hands-on with hardware: debugging circuits, designing PCBs, running tests, and making sure everything just works (safely).
• You thrive in multi-disciplinary environments: collaborating with mechanical, software, and AI engineers to make complex systems work effectively.
• You are comfortable with control algorithms from PID to MPC, complex filters and the linear algebra needed to develop them.

Above all, we’re building a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers. To thrive here, you are:

• Highly ambitious: comfortable taking a project from concept to completion - you do whatever it takes to deliver.
• Self-directed and proactive: you thrive in a dynamic, unpredictable, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Enthusiastic team players: you ask questions, help others, and communicate effectively.

What will impress us

We love proactive doers. Show us what you’ve built - whether it’s projects, or experiments. Tell us why our mission excites you. Be bold, be creative, and don’t feel embarrassed to stand out from the crowd.

Location

Our London office is right by Portobello Road. We work full-time, and largely on-site (4 days a week). Expect vibrant startup energy with a team that knows when to laugh, and when to buckle down.