Hire by role

Hire uav systems engineers in the UK

What uav systems engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Drone Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See UAV Systems Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£43k to £87k, most around £59k

The range employers advertised for uav systems engineers on Drone Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 17 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring uav systems engineers on Drone Jobs right now

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

Leonardo

Principal/Senior Systems Engineer - Autonomy and Sensor Fusion

Edinburgh
Hybrid
Lead · manages people
Permanent

Research and develop next-generation autonomy, sensor fusion and navigation algorithms, building demonstrator models for autonomous decision-making at sensor, platform and mission level. Work in a multi-discipline team, planning work packages, mentoring junior engineers and presenting findings to internal and customer stakeholders. Coding is primarily in Python with Git/Bitbucket and Agile methods.

Git · Bitbucket · Kanban

DV clearance 3 days ago

Helsing

Systems Engineer - System Architecture - Contra

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

4 days ago

QinetiQ

Autonomous Systems Engineer

Farnborough
On-site
£47,250 – £52,500 pa

Designs and develops production-level autonomy software for complex military aviation systems, using C (ideally C++) and Matlab. Owns technical work packages, contributes to algorithm development for autonomous and decision-support systems, and models uncrewed systems in synthetic environments. Supports hardware integration, testing and formally assessed trials in the UK and overseas alongside multidisciplinary teams.

MATLAB

SC clearance 5 days ago