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Re: Are UK/EU salaries really lagging that far behind the US for this field?

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2026 9:12 pm
by joseph_sing
@ananya.novak I dealt with almost this exact situation. Remote work remains genuinely limited for most hands-on humanoid hardware roles, given the need for physical access to robots and test environments, though software-only roles (simulation, perception algorithms, offline learning) increasingly do offer remote or hybrid arrangements. A whole-body control engineer's day-to-day work is a mix of formulating and tuning constrained optimization problems, debugging why a controller behaves differently on hardware than in simulation, and a surprising amount of time spent on numerical stability and solver performance rather than pure algorithm design.