Drone Jobs in Woking

• London
• Hybrid
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Lead

Hands-on technical leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, combining architecture ownership with mentoring engineers and facilitating Scrum delivery. Focus on real-time embedded software in C, C++ and Python for autonomous and safety-critical systems, with hardware/software integration and controlled development lifecycles.

DO-178C · ISO 26262 · IEC 61508

• London

Owns the top-level L0/L1 architecture of a distributed C-UAS system-of-systems, partitioning the capability into network, sensor and effector subsystems and defining the interfaces between them. Works on decentralised, hardware-agnostic designs enabling engage-on-remote and launch-on-remote, collaborating daily with situational awareness, interceptor integration, AI, software and hardware teams.

Tactical Networking · Mesh Communications · Resilient Data Links +1

• London
• Lead

Operational leader delivering multi-level technical training and Train the Trainer courses to European militaries, advising senior staff on CONOPs, mission planning and adoption of autonomous systems. Combines command-level advising with hands-on field deployment, integration and troubleshooting in austere environments, feeding user feedback back to engineering and product teams.

Lattice OS

• London
• £70 – £80 ph

Design, develop and integrate electrical systems for uncrewed aircraft, covering electrical architectures, power distribution, PCB layouts, cable harnesses and avionics integration. You'll work alongside mechanical, software and systems engineers across the full lifecycle, supporting ground and flight testing of autonomous air systems in a fast-paced start-up.

CAN Bus · Ethernet · Serial Interfaces

• London

Shape the system architecture, requirements and certification evidence for a jet-powered interceptor within an air defence system. Day to day you elicit stakeholder needs, maintain a JAMA requirements baseline, run trade studies and MBSE architecture work, own interface control documents and coordinate safety and certification activities.

JAMA

• London
• Mid-level

Bridges product engineering and deployed operations for the Ghost unmanned air vehicle program, executing flight operations, field maintenance, and customer training. Acts as product SME advising on operational employment, running test and evaluation events, and performing root-cause analyses for air systems in austere, remote environments.

Python · MATLAB · VTOL

• London
• Mid-level

Bridges product engineering and deployed operations for the Altius program, executing flight operations, field maintenance and customer training. Deploys to austere locations to troubleshoot hardware, software and networking issues, run root-cause analyses and shape long-term sustainment of aerial systems.

Linux · Unix · JIRA +2

• London

Owns the multimodal perception front-end end to end, architecting a stack that fuses EO and LWIR cameras, radar, LiDAR and IMUs into a coherent input for AI. Defines sensor selection, synchronisation (PTP/gPTP, PPS, hardware triggers), intrinsic/extrinsic calibration and safety concepts, working hands-on in the lab with hardware, electrical and computer-vision teams. Systems go into operational defence environments rather than prototypes.

LiDAR · Radar · IMU +7