As a founding hire at Adexis, you will architect the real-time systems connecting AI models to physical hardware. You will build high-rate sensor nodes and the inference stack that serves as the robot’s nervous system, ensuring every signal is processed with hard real-time precision to enable reliable, complex dexterous manipulation in the real world.
Robotics Engineer – Systems & Sensing at Adexis
Adexis is a London-based frontier research lab solving the challenge of dexterous manipulation by giving robots the power of touch, and we are looking for a founding Robotics Engineer to build the real-time nervous system that connects our models to the physical world. Backed by elite investors and top researchers from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and Google DeepMind, you will join a high-density talent environment modeled after legendary groups like Bell Labs to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and physical hardware, ensuring hard real-time precision and low-latency synchronization as we build the path toward physical general intelligence and a future of abundance.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£100k-£175k + Equity
Company
Adexis
Role overview
AI3–10+ employees
Founded in July 2026, Adexis is a London-based frontier robotics lab. We are solving dexterity by building the somatosensory cortex for Physical AI. Machines can speak our language and see our world, but they are still numb. Adexis will bring them the power of touch on the path to physical general intelligence. We are backed by leading VCs and angels from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and ElevenLabs.
What you will do
- Develop and own the inference node, running complex policies on physical hardware under hard real-time constraints and tight timing guarantees.
- Build sensor nodes that synchronize and stream multi-modal data, including high-rate force and contact signals, to provide the robot with a sense of touch.
- Own the entire stack’s synchronization and latency, ensuring hardware components like arms, hands, and sensors work together as one reliable, high-performance system.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience building and shipping real-time robotics systems onto hardware that runs reliably in production environments, not just in controlled demonstrations.
- Fluent in low-latency systems programming and deeply familiar with the nuances of sensor timing, data synchronization, and signal drift in physical systems.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate unfamiliar sensors and actuators from technical datasheets into working nodes with clean interfaces and robust performance.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a talent-dense founding team modeled after history’s greatest labs like Bell Labs and the Manhattan Project to solve the hardest problems in robotics.
- Work alongside elite researchers from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and Google DeepMind on a mission to bring machines the power of touch and reach physical general intelligence.
- Influence the fundamental architecture of the nervous system for next-generation robots, moving research out of notebooks and onto reliable hardware systems.
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