# Founding Engineer

**Company:** [Tekton Dynamics](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-companies/tekton-dynamics)
**Location:** London
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** GBP 100K–150K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-06-09

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/tekton-dynamics/founding-engineer-96216)

## Job description

**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.

### **About Tekton Dynamics**

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](https://tekton-dynamics.com/) and [how we operate](https://tekton-dynamics.com/careers/).

**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.

### **Your Role**

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:**

-   Dive into subject matter they are unfamiliar with
-   Apply first principles to solve technical problems
-   Index on solving the right problems over finding the perfect solution
-   Debate with data and logic, and then commit fully to executing team decisions
-   Appreciate that delivering customer value requires communicating and building trust with our customers

**Must-haves:**

-   3+ years shipping software in highly technical startup environments
-   “T-shaped” systems and software generalist
-   Designed, built and deployed software as part of an engineering team
-   Comfortable and confident in debugging messy reality: edge networks, hardware calibration, sim-to-real gap
-   Proven team player, clear communicator; you think from first principles, you identify assumptions and test them methodically, you question the ‘why’ behind every decision

**Nice-to-haves:**

-   Familiarity with training and evaluating machine learning pipelines
-   Experience in harsh industrial settings (welding/fabrication/heavy industry)
-   Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
-   Robotics and/or computer vision experience
-   Edge compute deployments, latency optimization and reliability monitoring

### **Example areas you’d be involved in**

### **Industrial workflows**

-   Process 3D CAD models into efficient data structures
-   Create declarative representations of complex industrial processes

### **Perception**

-   Install, calibrate, and optimize vision sensor capture and fusion pipelines
-   Train and deploy computer vision models for processing 2D/3D images

### **Robot Control and Command**

-   Tune and optimize our robot motion planning and collision avoidance stack
-   Build and train AI/machine learning based systems to handle real-world welding scenarios

### **Systems, hardware, and integration**

-   Design and construct sensor enclosures to protect sensors and edge devices
-   Design robust network architectures with redundancy to ensure always-on and secure access to edge devices
-   Engage external vendors and integrators to plan and install robotic cells

### **Benefits**

-   Private health insurance + pension contributions
-   Free lunch
-   Curiosity allowance (books, learning, memberships)

**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!**

## Other open roles at Tekton Dynamics

- [General Application](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/tekton-dynamics/general-application-96215) — London

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