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Founding Engineer

United Kingdom; United States, London 50000.00 - 110000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted March 04, 2026
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Software tool for designing robots and machines. We’re MorphoAI, a venture-backed deep-tech company working to reinvent the way people engineer robots, heavy machinery, surgical devices, and other complex dynamical cyber-physical systems. We’re building a new AI-powered invention platform to allow anyone to build embodied intelligence faster, cheaper, and better.

Job Responsibility

  • Work directly with the CTO and partially with the CEO on critical parts of the product roadmap to develop and deploy new critical new capabilities
  • Build and deploy products for SMB and enterprise customers that will have a huge, tangible impact on customers’ product development
  • Engage with customers to understand how users think about their problems and how we can develop usable products to solve them

Requirements

  • 2+ years experience in hands-on software development of highly technical products or a PhD in a CS or robotics-related field (e.g. MechE, ECE, etc.)
  • Past experience in software development, ideally for deployed products, open-source projects, or large codebases
  • Past experience working with control systems, Ideally having broad working knowledge in more than one of the following: Numerical optimization
  • Generative AI development and its underlying core methodology
  • Physical simulation and scientific computing
  • Advanced robotic control methods
  • Geometry processing representations and algorithms
  • Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, from ideation to deployment to maintenance
  • Intense curiosity, a desire to be continuously learning, grit, and an ability to communicate your technical ideas to a team
  • Product-minded with bent towards ideating
  • Proficiency in Python and leading ML frameworks such as Jax and PyTorch

Nice to have

  • Experience working at a startup as an early hire, and being in charge of deploying product and code
  • Past roles that interface with end customers to influence software development
  • Proficiency in additional programming languages including (e.g.) C++ and C#
  • Experience programming CUDA kernels for GPU-acceleration, and integration of those kernels with ML frameworks
  • Experience with visual computing domain-specific languages (DSLs) such as NVIDIA Warp or Taichi-Lang
  • Previous development work in Unity or NVIDIA Omniverse

What we offer

  • 20 days off/ year
  • Medical and dental benefits
  • Health and wellness discount plan
  • 401(k) account
  • Factorio (and other games) gaming buddies
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