Senior Systems Engineer
UK-based AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial deployment.
Funding history
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots and its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for real-world tasks across manufacturing, logistics, and related environments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will translate stakeholder needs into verifiable software and system requirements for a humanoid robot. You will define capabilities, architectures, interfaces, integration plans, and verification criteria across the software and autonomy stack. You will coordinate cross-functional integration, investigate system issues, establish validation strategies, and communicate risks and trade-offs.
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience in systems engineering, robotics software, software architecture, autonomous systems, or a related domain
- Experience with complex software-intensive or cyber-physical systems
- Knowledge of requirements engineering, architecture definition, interface management, integration, verification, validation, and traceability
- Experience in several robotics software domains, including ROS, perception, sensor fusion, localization, navigation, planning, controls, AI, simulation, or distributed real-time systems
- Ability to evaluate software behaviour across multiple components
- Experience defining measurable acceptance criteria for complex system behaviours
- Analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and technical communication skills
- Familiarity with ROS 2, C++, Python, Linux, Git, CI/CD, containers, and modern software development workflows
- Experience with simulation tools such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or MATLAB/Simulink
- Experience with SysML, model-based systems engineering, or software architecture modelling
Responsibilities
- Translate stakeholder needs into clear and verifiable system and software requirements
- Define software capabilities for robot behaviours, use cases, and product objectives
- Develop and maintain the functional and logical architecture of the software and autonomy stack
- Define component interfaces, dependencies, system boundaries, and responsibilities
- Coordinate integration across software, firmware, electronics, sensors, actuators, and mechanical systems
- Define integration stages, readiness criteria, and test environments
- Investigate complex system-level software and hardware issues
- Define degraded, recovery, fallback, and safe-state behaviours
- Develop verification and validation strategies for autonomous robotic capabilities
- Establish performance and acceptance criteria for autonomous functions
- Maintain traceability between use cases, requirements, architecture, implementation, tests, and verification evidence
- Facilitate technical reviews and communicate technical risks and trade-offs
- Coach engineering teams in practical systems engineering methods
Benefits
- Stock options
- 23 days of annual leave
- UK bank holidays
- Additional company closure days, including a Christmas–New Year shutdown
- Private healthcare
- Virtual and in-person care
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution, including 3% employer contribution
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in the office