About Us:

Self® is on a mission to bring wellness and massage to every body — literally. Our non-human masseuse delivers high-quality, consistent, and affordable massage experiences that never get tired or distracted.

After four years of R&D, we’ve built a cutting-edge massage robot to revolutionize workplace and fitness-based wellbeing. We recently signed a major deal with a high-end fitness chain in London, kicking off our UK expansion. Backed by strategic London-based VCs and prominent angel investors, we’re laser-focused on making robotic wellness the new standard.

Next up: scaling across the UK in 2026, then Canada and the U.S. in 2027. Our long-term vision is global — wellness on demand, powered by robotics.

The Role:

We’re looking for a Robotics Developer who’s excited to get hands-on with hardware, edge devices, and distributed IoT systems. You’ll own the software that powers our robots — from low-level control to deployment pipelines and on-device intelligence.

You’ll work closely with our senior robotics advisors and collaborate with hardware, product, and cloud engineers to make our robot safe, reliable, and delightful to use.

This is a rare opportunity to join early, shape the technical direction, and see your code run on real machines helping real people.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and deploy software to distributed robotic devices.

• Integrate and orchestrate key system components:

• Robot control & motion

• Safety & system reliability

• Networking & remote updates

• Optional: perception & computer vision

• Build Linux-based environments for production robots.

• Prototype, test, and iterate quickly — in gyms, offices, and real customer spaces.

• Contribute to architecture decisions and future-proof the stack.

What We're Looking For:

• Languages: Python or Go (must be great at one)

• Core: Linux, Docker, MQTT/IoT frameworks

• Plus: C++, computer vision, distributed systems, hardware integration

• Hands-on approach to real-world testing and iteration.

• Collaborative and pragmatic mindset; comfortable in a startup environment.

• Eagerness to grow into a larger AI ownership role over time.

• Able to travel regularly to London, UK.

• Open to work on-call shifts (additional pay)

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with vision or motion capture systems.

• Familiarity with 3D surface mapping or multi-camera fusion.

• Experience working across Windows and Linux platforms.

• Exposure to UI tools.

• Background in ML-based CV tasks (e.g. segmentation, pose models, object tracking).

• Interest in wellness tech, human-centered design, or robotics.

What We Offer:

• Equity in a fast-growing wellness & robotics startup

• A collaborative, impact-driven team culture

• Flexible hours and hybrid/remote work options

• A clear growth path to Head of Robotics, or Lead AI Engineer as we scale our visual data and learning capabilities

• The rare opportunity to build something truly novel, from the ground up