Machine Learning Scientist – Early Scale-Up

Company: Understanding Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

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 enablerobots to understand, learn and act in the real world.

You’ll tackle open-ended research acrossrobot 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 do

  • Lead research acrossrobot learning, VLAs and world models
  • Develop new model architectures, training methods and data strategies
  • Explore how models cangeneralise across tasks, environments and embodiments
  • Take ideas from papers and first principles toreal-world robotic experiments
  • Help define the company’s long-term research direction
  • Publish meaningful research

What we’re looking for

  • Strong research background inML, 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 genuinelyunsolved research problems

Why join?

  • Founding role + significant equity
  • Define the research agenda from the ground up
  • Work at the frontier ofPhysical AI
  • Experiment onreal robotic hardware
  • Small, highly technical founding team
  • Genuine research freedom and ownership

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Posted: September 12th, 2026