Drone Jobs in Woking

Leonardo · Luton

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.

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

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 · £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.

Windracers · Fareham

Take technical ownership of powerplant and propulsion systems for fixed-wing logistics UAVs, covering architecture, integration, testing, production support and operational reliability. Lead design of engines or motors, propellers, mounts and cooling, manage supplier relationships and define verification and validation test strategies including ground, endurance and flight testing.

Leonardo · Basildon

Defines and refines the strategic software architecture for C-UAS mission systems, spanning SI enterprise architecture, sensor/effector and C2/GUI integration, and technical leadership in bids and external studies. Works alongside solution architects and capability managers, producing white papers to steer stakeholder thinking. Hybrid role based in Basildon within a defence product team.

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.

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.

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.

Leonardo · Edinburgh

Designs, develops and verifies navigation systems and algorithms for airborne, maritime and land platforms, covering sensor fusion, state estimation and PNT solutions for contested environments. Works across the full engineering lifecycle, from concept and modelling to integration, verification and customer support, using MATLAB/Simulink and Kalman filtering techniques within a multidisciplinary, multi-national team.

Leonardo · Yeovil

Develops high-integrity real-time mission management software for both legacy manned helicopters and emerging uncrewed autonomous platforms. Works across UML modelling, Ada95/C/C++ implementation, DOORS requirements traceability, and hardware-in-the-loop integration, while navigating DO-178C certification and open architecture standards like FACE/MOSA.