53 jobs
Callen Lenz Salisbury £50,000 – £60,000 pa
Develops, configures and tests Ardupilot-based flight control systems for UAV platforms, tuning flight behaviours in SITL and live flight, and integrating sensors such as GPS, cameras and LiDAR. Works within the Autopilot team on requirements capture, architectural design, peer reviews and documentation, using C++ and protocols including MAVLink, CAN, SPI, I2C, UDP and TCP.
Callen Lenz Salisbury £60,000 – £75,000 pa
Owns the full business winning lifecycle for a UAS and aerospace company, from market analysis and strategy through opportunity development, capture leadership and deal closure. Leads capture teams, develops Price to Win and business cases, and manages customer and stakeholder relationships across government and industry.
Tekever Bristol
Technical owner of FPGA and programmable logic design inside gimbal payloads, covering the video capture and processing chain, sensor and high-speed serial interfaces, and real-time pointing and stabilisation control. The role takes in-house payload electronics from prototype to qualified production, with short design cycles and direct ownership of logic that flies.
Tekever Bristol
Hands-on role integrating third-party and military-grade sensors into autonomous platforms, building adapters and drivers, and developing sensor/data fusion and geolocation pipelines that turn raw detections into reliable tracks. Ships production C++ and Rust with ROS2, tuning Kalman-filter-based tracking against real and synthetic data, and works daily with AI coding assistants.
Saab Oakley
Lead the Systems Engineering discipline for a defence and aerospace business unit, setting technical vision, governance and methodologies for complex solutions. Oversee lifecycle management activities including bids, design reviews and audits, while driving Model-Based Systems Engineering and digital transformation. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and subject matter experts, acting as senior escalation point for architectural and system-of-systems issues.
Shield AI London
Finance business partner for the Hivemind autonomy unit, building financial models for budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning, and tracking program costs, EAC updates and EVM performance. Works closely with program management and engineering on government defence contracts, plus month-end close, variance analysis and executive reporting.
Callen Lenz Salisbury £32,000 – £36,000 pa
Hands-on end-user support role covering hardware, software, Microsoft 365 administration and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, alongside incident response, service requests and user administration. The position also involves building and configuring laptops, desktops and smartphones, contributing to IT projects and service improvements, and maintaining documentation within a growing aerospace-focused IT team.
Callen Lenz Salisbury £55,000 – £65,000 pa
Focuses on UAS Deep Effects, identifying and developing new defence opportunities while shaping the company's business development strategy. Involves building campaign plans, a qualified opportunity pipeline, and relationships with Army HQ, Field Army and wider defence networks, plus consultancy across defence programmes. Requires deep UK Defence and NATO UAS/Deep Fires domain expertise and security clearance eligibility.
Callen Lenz Southampton
Lead a small mixed-discipline team building autonomous prototypes for a stealth-mode uncrewed systems venture, owning electronics, software and control systems from concept through build and test. Work directly with the CTO, manage project budgets and requirements, and build in-house prototyping capability and supplier relationships. Requires hands-on integration work and support for off-site trials.
Tekever Swindon
Build and run a composites manufacturing capability from scratch for drone airframe structures, covering facility layout, equipment commissioning, pre-preg lay-up, tooling, cure, trim and inspection. Recruit and lead the shop-floor team, own quality, safety and production rate, and transfer best practice across European plants.
Tekever Bristol
Hands-on operational leadership role owning corporate IT operations, infrastructure delivery and service maturity across a co-managed MSP environment. Acts as senior escalation point for incidents and outages, overseeing networking, virtualisation, cloud, endpoint platforms and identity/access management while coordinating suppliers and security teams.
Tekever Swindon
Hands-on quality management role leading day-to-day assurance within a Swindon manufacturing operation, establishing controlled processes that meet AS9100 and ISO 9001. Involves FAIRs and AS9102, nonconformance control, root-cause analysis (5 Whys, Ishikawa, 8D), audits and Kaizen improvement, working with Manufacturing Engineering, Production and Supply Chain.
Tekever Swindon
Lead day-to-day security operations across people, facilities, technology and assets, reporting to the Head of Security. Build operating models, procedures and incident response playbooks, manage guarding contracts and physical security systems, and support defence and government requirements across UK and international sites.
