Latest Software Developer Jobs

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (5961)

Customer-facing engineering role deploying Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software on site with customers, roughly 30% travel. You build AI and autonomy applications with the enterprise SDK, provide technical support and training, debug software and API integration issues, and feed customer insight back to product engineering. Requires strong modern C++ skills.

Shield AI London

Hybrid

Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5538)

Lead the delivery of tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms across air, land, sea and space, architecting scalable behaviour subsystems and working hands-on through the full lifecycle from requirements to verification. Involves multi-agent coordination, motion planning, target engagement and close collaboration with vehicle integration teams and operators, with up to 20% travel.

Shield AI London

Hybrid

Multimodal Sensing and Fusion Engineer

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.

Helsing London

Summer Placement - Engineering

Summer placement students join Electronic Warfare and Future Combat Air teams, working on real projects across software, systems, hardware, firmware, microwave or antenna engineering. They deliver small work packages, design and test products, and collaborate with experienced engineers across the product lifecycle, with mentoring and possible return offers.

Leonardo Luton

On-site Temporary Clearance Required

Electronics Engineering Manager

Lead and support a team of 10+ electronic engineers across multiple programmes, owning hardware design from requirements capture to production release. Involves detailed digital, mixed-signal, FPGA and high-reliability design, plus design assurance and verification for safety-critical electronics. Works cross-functionally with systems, software, mechanical and test teams within the BlueBear UAV business.

Saab Oakley

Clearance Required

Senior Product Security Engineer

Owns the development and maturation of security features across AI systems, command and control platforms, aerospace vehicles and sensors. Conducts architecture reviews, source code analysis, configuration auditing and adversarial testing, and builds tooling while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing and operations teams to embed resilience.

Anduril London

Clearance Required

Staff Product Security Engineer

Owns the development and maturation of security features across AI systems, command and control platforms, aerospace vehicles and sensors. Conducts architecture reviews, source code analysis, configuration auditing and adversarial testing, and builds tooling while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing and operations teams to harden products.

Anduril London

Clearance Required

Head of Systems Engineering

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.

Saab Oakley

Clearance Required

Test Engineer - Ground

Executes high-repetition burn-in tests on firmware and hardware for ground control stations and data links, validates mechanical launch systems, and maintains a ground-based Iron Bird rig to simulate component failures. Builds a regression library of edge cases and produces de-risking reports in JIRA, using HIL/SIL setups, protocol analysers and environmental stress testing to shift failure discovery from flight tests to the lab.

Helsing London

Junior Regulatory Specialist

Supports the Regulations & Safety team in monitoring drone regulations and preparing airspace change requests, safety cases and SORA assessments for VLOS and BVLOS operations. Involves GIS mapping, tracking regulatory applications and coordinating with Flight Operations, aimed at recent graduates or junior aviation professionals.

Matchtech Hampshire

Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Systems Engineer

Deliver systems engineering outputs across the full lifecycle for complex uncrewed aircraft systems, covering requirements capture and management, system architecture, integration, verification and validation, and risk management. Work within multidisciplinary teams spanning software, electronics, mechanical, payload and platform engineering, supporting qualification and flight test activities.

Callen Lenz Salisbury £50,000 – £65,000 pa

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Principal Avionics Engineer

Deliver avionics systems engineering across navigation, power, communication, payloads, aircraft management and C2 systems for unmanned air systems, providing technical leadership over design, development and integration. The role involves supervising other engineers, improving internal processes, and supporting airworthiness, safety and certification requirements within a multi-disciplined team.

Callen Lenz Salisbury £65,000 – £75,000 pa

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

UAV/ Senior UAV Technician

Hands-on assembly of airframe components, sub-assemblies and fuel systems from build packs, plus installation of avionics onto aircraft and testing of sub-systems to SOPs. Works within a small sub-team on the ULTRA production line, following engineering drawings and feeding process issues back to Manufacturing and Engineering, with UK travel to support flight operations.

Windracers Fareham

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Additive Manufacturing Technician

Hands-on role operating and maintaining industrial additive manufacturing equipment, including SLS and polymer systems, taking builds from preparation through post-processing and inspection. Works closely with Manufacturing, Design Engineering and Quality to develop processes, support DfAM activities and production components for aerospace and defence systems.

Tekever Swindon

Hybrid

Principal FPGA Engineer

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

Hybrid Clearance Required