# Founding Engineer at Tekton Dynamics

Founding Engineer at Tekton Dynamics in London. On-site, full-time, paying £100k–£150k. Posted October 8, 2026.

- Company: Tekton Dynamics
- Location: London
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: £100k–£150k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tekton-dynamics/640c2679-2d42-4de9-af1f-5d5bee17d4cd/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-tekton-dynamics-dp1kaa

## 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 and how we operate.
**We are:**

- **Backed by Y Combinatorand 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 **FoundingEngineer**, 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 inIndustrial 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!**