Drone Jobs in Woking

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Front End Software Engineer

Last month

Callen Lenz Salisbury £50,000 – £60,000 pa

Design and build pixel-perfect, responsive user interfaces for flight control and ground station software, working with React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS and real-time streaming technologies. The role sits in a cross-functional agile team collaborating with UX researchers and designers, contributing to a design system, code reviews and test coverage with Jest, Cypress or RTL.

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Modelling and Simulation Engineer

Last month

Callen Lenz Salisbury £40,000 – £50,000 pa

Working within the Air Vehicle Design team, you will conduct multi-disciplinary modelling and simulation, including aircraft performance analyses, flight dynamics modelling, control algorithm design and model validation against experimental test data. The role also involves building flight simulation and visualisation test environments, gathering data through bench and flight testing, and maintaining a library of reusable models and tools.

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Radar Instructor

3 weeks ago

Saab Fareham

Deliver operator and maintainer training on a portfolio of radar and sensor systems at UK and Swedish sites, plus customer locations worldwide. Develop and maintain course material, fault-find on customer systems, and feed into technical publications, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Project Quality Manager

3 weeks ago

Tekever Bristol

Lead quality assurance and quality management across defence and aerospace projects, acting as the customer-facing quality focal point. Own the Project Quality Management Plan, requirements traceability, configuration and change control, supplier quality, nonconformance and CAPA, and support design reviews and verification activities alongside project, engineering and supply chain teams.

Technical Documents Manager

Last month

Tekever Bristol

Lead the development and lifecycle management of S1000D-compliant technical publications for Unmanned Air System programmes within an Integrated Logistics Support capability. Own the CSDB, data module structures and DMRL, liaise with customers and regulators on airworthiness requirements, and manage a technical authoring team through engineering change and configuration control.

Hybrid Clearance Required

Test Engineer - Environment

Last month

Helsing London

Designs and runs environmental stress test campaigns on drone sub-systems and ground support equipment, covering vibration, shock, thermal cycling, ingress, salt spray, altitude and fatigue testing. Works as a generalist across hardware domains in the "Physical Reality" test cluster, using strain gauges, accelerometers and DAQ systems to map failure envelopes and validate survivability.

Prototyping Engineer

Last month

Helsing London

Hands-on role building flight-ready drone prototypes, spanning mechanical design, electrical integration and hardware iteration. You fabricate airframes, wire avionics and power systems, configure PX4/ArduPilot flight controllers, and run field test campaigns, using telemetry to refine CAD models across successive iterations.

Manager, Autonomy Applications Engineering (R5188)

5 months ago

Shield AI London

Lead and coach a team of Forward Deployed Engineers supporting customer deployment, onboarding and sustained use of the Hivemind autonomy SDK in real-world operational environments. The role combines people management, technical escalation and field feedback loops, partnering with product and engineering to improve deployment playbooks and customer readiness. Requires strong C++ and Python background plus up to 30% travel.

Hybrid

Autopilot Software Engineer

Last month

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.

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Business Development Manager

Last month

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.

On-site Permanent

IT Support Analyst

3 months ago

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.

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Risk Manager

Last month

Tekever Bristol

Owns and runs the risk and opportunity management function across major civil and defence programmes, maintaining the Risk and Opportunity Register, applying risk scoring methodology and facilitating identification workshops. Coordinates engineering, safety, certification, supply chain and commercial risk with the Chief Engineer, Safety Manager and Commercial Lead, and reports into programme boards and authority cycles.

Hybrid

Sensor Fusion & Integration Engineer

Last month

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.

Hybrid Clearance Required

Composites Manager

3 weeks ago

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.

Hybrid Clearance Required

Quality Manager

3 weeks ago

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.

Hybrid

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