💼 Full-Time Position

Robotics engineer

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Ubundi
📍 Remote, wes kaap, South-Africa
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Location
Remote, South-Africa
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Posted
June 19, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

About Ubundi

Ubundi is a South African venture studio building human-centered AI. First Motive, one of our ventures, builds the data engine for Physical AI — the ground-truth infrastructure that turns real-world, multimodal capture into clean, replayable, train-ready datasets, and the robots that learn from them.

We already have a platform that captures data and a pipeline that turns it into trained policies. What we need now is the person who closes the loop — who takes a learned model and makes a robot act on it.

The Mission

Own the seam between model and robot. Take the VLA/VTLA policies our data engine produces and deploy them onto real and simulated robots — orchestrating tasks, serving inference in the loop, and making autonomous behaviour actually happen on hardware.

What You'll Do Build the task brain — orchestrate multi-step robot behaviour per task: sequencing, arbitration, recovery Serve learned VLA/VTLA policies into the robot in real time, clos...