Machine Learning Scientist - Early Scale-Up

90,London Area Machine Learning Research Scientist Help define the research agenda for Physical AI from day one.

We’re hiring a Founding Research Scientist for an ambitious UK startup building the models that will enable robots to understand, learn and act in the real world.

You’ll tackle open-ended research across robot learning, vision-language-action models and world models - developing new ideas, testing them on real robotic systems and turning promising research into working technology.

What you’ll doLead research across robot learning, VLAs and world models

Develop new model architectures, training methods and data strategies

Explore how models can generalise across tasks, environments and embodiments

Take ideas from papers and first principles to real-world robotic experiments

Help define the company’s long-term research direction

Publish meaningful research

What we’re looking for Strong research background in ML, robotics or computer vision

Deep understanding of modern deep learning

Experience training and evaluating ML models

Excellent mathematical and experimental instincts

Ability to form hypotheses and design rigorous experiments

Curiosity for genuinely unsolved research problems

Why join?

Founding role + significant equity

Define the research agenda from the ground upWork at the frontier of Physical AIExperiment on real robotic hardware

Small, highly technical founding team Genuine research freedom and ownership