Principal or Senior Physical AI Engineer at hfbac.com in London
- Company: hfbac.com
- Location: London
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
Overview
Nothing is live yet. This is genuine market mapping before a role gets built, and I'd love to hear from people who might be a fit whether or not the timing works for you right now. No pitch, no locked-in vacancy details, just understanding what's out there and what would genuinely move someone.
Job description
- Nothing is live yet. This is genuine market mapping before a role gets built, and I'd love to hear from people who might be a fit whether or not the timing works for you right now.
- No pitch, no locked-in vacancy details, just understanding what's out there and what would genuinely move someone.
Responsibilities
- Owning a technical direction and turning it into an actual engineering plan
- Bringing a team with you
Requirements
- Real, hands-on production experience in reinforcement learning for manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, and domain randomisation for contact-rich tasks. Academic exposure alone isn't enough.
- Trained models that actually control a physical robot, not just software.
- Taken something that works in simulation and made it survive contact with the real world.
- Comfortable owning a technical direction and turning it into an actual engineering plan, and bringing a team with you.
- A PhD or years in robotics, RL or controls is a plus, but not a gate. If your track record speaks for itself, that's what counts.
Skills
Required
- Reinforcement learning
- Sim-to-real transfer
- Domain randomisation
- Physical robot control
- Technical leadership
- Engineering planning
Preferred
- PhD or years in robotics, RL or controls
About hfbac.com
Early conversations on behalf of a profitable, independent, deep-tech robotics company in London with thirty years of engineering depth behind it, not a six-month-old company running on funding alone.