AI Research Scientist (120k-200k + Equity) at Paddington Robotics Limited

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Job Title: AI Research Scientist

Salary: 120k-200k Equity

Company Description: Paddington Robotics Limited - VC-backed applied AI robotics lab

Job Description:
Join an elite team led by a Magic Pony co-founder to build physical AI for the chaotic real world. Moving beyond lab simulations you will leverage high-quality data from actual robot deployments to develop generalisable models for manipulation and navigation delivering immediate commercial impact while solving fundamental challenges in robotics.

Location: London UK

Why this role is remarkable:

• Work under Zehan Wang co-founder of Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter for $150M) alongside a world-class team from Amazon AGI InstaDeep and top-tier universities.

• Eschew traditional lab-only research for an iterative deployment approach testing your models on real hardware in human-centric environments like supermarkets to capture unique edge cases.

• Enjoy significant ownership and early-stage equity in the UKs leading applied AI robotics team backed by proven founders and preparing for an upcoming funding round.

What you will do:

• Develop and scale 3D perception and data capture systems to help robots understand and navigate unpredictable dynamic human environments safely.

• Design and implement cutting-edge robot learning approaches including Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and Reinforcement Learning for complex manipulation tasks.

• Prototype ship and iterate on code that runs on physical hardware bridging the gap between theoretical research and robust real-world robotic performance.

The ideal candidate:

• Holds a PhD or equivalent with 5 years of experience publishing at top-tier venues like ICRA CoRL NeurIPS or CVPR.

• Demonstrates a proven track record of deploying cutting-edge AI models onto physical hardware showing resilience against sensor noise and environmental mess.

• Possesses strong engineering fundamentals to prototype and ship code independently while maintaining a low-ego highly collaborative approach to rapid iterative development.

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