Founding Engineer

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.

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 and how we operate.

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.

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:

Must-haves:

Nice-to-haves:

Example areas you’d be involved in

Industrial workflows

Perception

Robot Control and Command

Systems, hardware, and integration

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!