**Location:** Our industrial lab near London Bridge, in person 5 days/week, occasional travel to industry partners across the UK, Europe, and the US.
**Competitive salary:** GBP 100-150K + bonus + meaningful equity.
# **About Tekton Dynamics**
At Tekton Dynamics, we are on a mission to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, to invent and build anything using intelligent robots.
We are building the AI-powered control layer for industrial robots — starting with welding.
Take a look at [what we’re building](https://tekton-dynamics.com/) and [how we operate](https://tekton-dynamics.com/careers/).
**We are:**
* **Backed by Y Combinator** **and founders of PayPal, Affirm, Slack** – with a $6M seed round. Scout investments by Sequoia, a16z, Accel, and Kleiner Perkins.
* **Founding team of AI PhDs and previous startup CTOs** – everyone has a founder/CTO background.
* **Building with real industry partners from the start** – focused on shipping robotic solutions for real-world deployment in record time.
# **Your Role**
As Tekton Dynamic’s **Founding** **Engineer** , you’ll operate as a core member of our multi-disciplinary product engineering team. You'll be researching, planning, and developing systems and software across our entire engineering stack.
**This is not a typical “Software Engineer” role**. You’ll design, build, and maintain core systems that fuse software, hardware and networks. You’ll be both in the weeds with deeply technical subject matter across software, robotics, and AI — and hands-on installing vision sensors, industrial robots, and welding equipment in our R&D lab and our customers’ production facilities.
**We value “T-shaped” engineers who:**
* Dive into subject matter they are unfamiliar with
* Apply first principles to solve technical problems
* Index on solving the right problems over finding the perfect solution
* Debate with data and logic, and then commit fully to executing team decisions
* Appreciate that delivering customer value requires communicating and building trust with our customers
**Must-haves:**
* 3+ years shipping software in highly technical startup environments
* “T-shaped” systems and software generalist
* Designed, built and deployed software as part of an engineering team
* Comfortable and confident in debugging messy reality: edge networks, hardware calibration, sim-to-real gap
* Proven team player, clear communicator; you think from first principles, you identify assumptions and test them methodically, you question the ‘why’ behind every decision
**Nice-to-haves:**
* Familiarity with training and evaluating machine learning pipelines
* Experience in harsh industrial settings (welding/fabrication/heavy industry)
* Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
* Robotics and/or computer vision experience
* Edge compute deployments, latency optimization and reliability monitoring
# **Example areas you’d be involved in**
### **Industrial workflows**
* Process 3D CAD models into efficient data structures
* Create declarative representations of complex industrial processes
### **Perception**
* Install, calibrate, and optimize vision sensor capture and fusion pipelines
* Train and deploy computer vision models for processing 2D/3D images
### **Robot Control and Command**
* Tune and optimize our robot motion planning and collision avoidance stack
* Build and train AI/machine learning based systems to handle real-world welding scenarios
### **Systems, hardware, and integration**
* Design and construct sensor enclosures to protect sensors and edge devices
* Design robust network architectures with redundancy to ensure always-on and secure access to edge devices
* Engage external vendors and integrators to plan and install robotic cells
# **Benefits**
* Private health insurance + pension contributions
* Free lunch
* Curiosity allowance (books, learning, memberships)
**A note on our in-office culture:** Our team works in our industrial lab near London Bridge five days a week. In our opinion, it’s a core requirement for building physical AI - and we love it. Please only apply if this excites you too.
**Join us as our founding engineer and employee #4!**
Visa sponsorship is offered for this role.
