Drone Jobs

• Herefordshire
• £65,000 – £85,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Contribute across the full design lifecycle of specialist UAV launch equipment, developing mechanical concepts and detailed designs in SolidWorks. Translate technical requirements into workable solutions, evaluate pneumatic components, and support prototype assembly and testing while working closely with engineering and manufacturing colleagues.

SolidWorks

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Customer-facing engineer deploying Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software on-site with customers, supporting integration, training and debugging of API issues. Builds AI and autonomy applications using the enterprise SDK in modern C++, and feeds customer insights back to product engineering. Involves roughly 30% travel and pre-sales support such as demos and conferences.

Hivemind · Shield AI Enterprise Software Development Kit · V-BAT +2

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people

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.

Hivemind SDK · Hivemind · V-BAT +2

• Salisbury
• On-site
• £50,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

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.

UAS · Autonomy · Mission Systems +1

• Salisbury
• On-site
• £40,000 – £50,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Design, develop, integrate and verify electronic hardware and systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, covering analogue, digital and mixed-signal circuitry, PCB/PCBA design, interfaces, sensors and test equipment across the full engineering lifecycle. Works alongside Systems, Software, Air Vehicle, Avionics, Test and Manufacturing teams, with emphasis on DfM, DfA, DfT and qualification for production.

UAV · Avionics · Sensors +1

• Luton
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Design and deliver complex FPGA/Firmware for self-protection systems on fast jet, UAV, land and naval platforms, covering requirements capture, VHDL/Verilog design, test and integration with PCB designers. Lead and Principal engineers also support and guide several engineers, enhance processes across UK-wide firmware teams, and may travel for technical reviews. Work uses Xilinx, Intel and Microsemi architectures, high-speed interfaces and DO-254-style structured design.

Xilinx · Intel (Altera) · Microsemi (Actel) +6

• Luton
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Responsible for the electronic architecture of high-performance self-protection systems fitted to fast jet, UAV, land and naval platforms, working within an Integrated Project Team alongside Systems, Mechanical and Firmware engineers. Covers the full product lifecycle including qualification, design changes, obsolescence, production support and repairs, with testing of RF, microwave, digital and high-speed designs. Involves technical risk management, documentation and coaching within an international multi-partner team.

• Cambridgeshire
• £70,000 – £100,000 pa
• Senior

Owns the full RF lifecycle, designing, building and testing complex RF-based systems such as sensors for autonomous drones, space-based radars and mission-critical comms. Works in a multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts with access to anechoic chambers and spectrum/network analysis equipment, covering microwave, RF and analogue design and simulation.

Anechoic Chambers · Spectrum Analysis Equipment · Network Analysis Equipment

• Salisbury
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £56,025 – £62,250 pa
• Senior · manages people

Provides technical leadership across complex aerospace programmes, leading multidisciplinary teams through requirements management, systems integration, test and evaluation, certification and technical governance. Works with customers and project managers on military, civil and uncrewed aircraft, based at Boscombe Down with at least three days a week on site.

• Bedford
• Senior

Technical owner of new UAV concepts, turning customer requirements and CONOPS into sized, analysed and flight-tested air vehicles while running several concept studies in parallel. Leads conceptual sizing and trade studies across aerodynamics, weights, propulsion, mission and stability, and closes the loop between analysis and reality by calibrating sizing methods with bench, wind-tunnel and flight-test data. Also develops the team's Python-based concept-design tools and helps develop junior engineers.

OpenVSP · AVL · XFLR5 +6

• Fareham
• On-site
• Permanent

ScopeCarrying out the assembly, installation, and testing of aircraft powerplant systems for the Windracers ULTRA, ensuring associated systems are commissioned in accordance with approved manufacturer requirements and Windracers company procedures. The role will receive work assigned and supervision from the…

• Fareham

Servicing, installing, repairing and maintaining Giraffe 1X and other radars, working with high-power AC/DC components, electronics, hydraulics and cooling systems. The role involves on-site customer support, training end users, trials and deployments worldwide, including short-notice travel to high-risk areas, plus system integration and configuration management.

Giraffe 1X

• Bristol
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level

Joins a growing UK airworthiness team, initially focused on regulatory approval of a tactical uncrewed aircraft system for international customers and UK defence. Builds certification evidence, compliance matrices and SORA-based safety cases with design, systems and test engineers, later widening to other products and design organisation approval.

EASA Part 21 · UK CAA · MAA DAOS +1

• Oakland, United States
• £120,000 – £200,000 pa
• Senior

Designs and develops electronics hardware and embedded systems across the full product lifecycle for robotic UAS platforms operating in real-world environments. Involves analogue and digital circuit design, PCB layout and schematic capture in Altium, plus prototyping, testing and debugging with oscilloscopes and logic analysers. Works on cutting-edge robotics, UAV, UGV and space technologies.

Altium Designer · STM32 · ARM Cortex +7

• 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