# Founding Engineer - Company: [Tekton Dynamics]() - Location: London - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: £100K – £150K - Posted: June 9, 2026 ## 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!** ![](https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/3208b3d1-ae03-4277-8d2a-5f90e3b90e39/6ba193b2-41ef-42fd-a72c-c9e09cebf1ab/Steel%20fabrication%20-%20group%20photo.png) ## Apply [Apply on Tekton Dynamics]() Canonical job page: