Robotics Lead

Robotics Lead

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Employment: Permanent/full-time

Language: English required; French is a plus

The Role:

An exciting opportunity to become the first Robotics hire within a growing scale-up company and take ownership of building a new robotics department from the ground up.

You will play a key role in defining the robotics strategy, architecture and technology stack, while also remaining highly hands-on technically. As the function grows, you will have the opportunity to build and lead a wider robotics team.

This is a role for someone who enjoys moving quickly, building from scratch and turning ideas into working robotic systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the overall robotics system architecture and technical roadmap
• Lead the selection and integration of robotics hardware, sensors and compute platforms
• Develop end-to-end robotic manipulation pipelines
• Work across perception, planning, control and learning
• Develop and deploy imitation learning and reinforcement learning approaches
• Explore and implement the latest developments in VLA, VLM and Embodied AI
• Work with bi-arm / bimanual robotic systems
• Build, test and iterate rapidly on real robotic systems
• Take ownership of projects from initial concept through to deployment
• Help shape the robotics team, hiring future engineers and defining technical processes

Technical Background:

• Robotics / robotic manipulation
• Python and C++
• ROS / ROS2
• PyTorch / deep learning
• Kinematics
• Reinforcement learning
• VLA / VLM / Embodied AI
• Motion planning and control
• Robotic arms, grippers and sensor integration

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience developing and deploying robotic systems
• Experience taking robotics projects from architecture through to working prototype
• Strong understanding of modern robot learning and manipulation
• Ideally, hands-on experience with bi-arm / bimanual robotics
• A genuine interest in the latest developments across robotics and AI
• Startup / fast-builder mentality
  • comfortable working autonomously, experimenting and solving problems from first principles
• Ability and ambition to eventually build and lead a robotics team
• Fluent English; French is advantageous

Apply directly to have your profile submitted to the portal. For more information, get in touch at [email protected]