Founding ML Scientist - Physical AI & Robotics

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Founding Research Scientist for a UK startup building models that enable robots to understand, learn, and act in the real world. The role focuses on robot learning, vision-language-action models and world models, with real robotic experiments and substantial research ownership.

You will lead research efforts, develop new architectures and data strategies, and help define the company’s long-term research direction while publishing impactful results.