Drone Jobs

• Swindon
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level · manages people

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.

Autoclave · ERP · MES +3

• London
• Lead

Operational leader delivering multi-level technical training and Train the Trainer courses to European militaries, advising senior staff on CONOPs, mission planning and adoption of autonomous systems. Combines command-level advising with hands-on field deployment, integration and troubleshooting in austere environments, feeding user feedback back to engineering and product teams.

Lattice OS

• Bristol
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

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.

Altium

• Southampton
• On-site
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

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.

Ardupilot · PX4 · Gazebo +7

• Salisbury
• Hybrid
• £50,000 – £60,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

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.

Figma · Jira · Jest +3

• Llanbedr

Operate Anduril UK's uncrewed air systems as a CAA Authorised UAS Pilot, planning and executing VLOS and BVLOS missions in the Specific Category. Act as Safety Pilot on fixed-wing and VTOL platforms, manage Pixhawk and Cube Orange flight controllers, and produce SORA risk assessments and flight documentation alongside engineering and flight test teams.

Pixhawk · Cube Orange · Lattice OS +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead

Owns the full sales lifecycle for V-BAT ISR UAS and Hivemind mission autonomy capabilities across UK defence and government accounts, focusing on urgent operational requirements and non-standard acquisition pathways. Involves shaping requirements at source, building trusted relationships with special mission communities and programme offices, and leading proposals with cross-functional teams.

Hivemind · V-BAT · X-BAT +1

• 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

Own end-to-end UAV hardware design, from early concept and analysis through to flight-ready builds, working across aerodynamic, structural, propulsion and electronic subsystems. Develop and iterate prototypes at pace, run validation and flight-readiness testing, and select components and materials with suppliers. Depth in one specialism is expected while keeping the integrated system in view.

CAD · FEA · CFD +3

• Hereford
• £40,000 – £55,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on mechanical design role developing launch systems for fixed-wing UAVs, taking concepts from 3D models and drawings through to manufacture, assembly and testing. Working in a small engineering team, you'll use SolidWorks to design components and assemblies, produce BOMs and technical documentation, and incorporate pneumatic components where needed.

SolidWorks

• 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

• Witney
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £50,000 – £60,000 pa
• Permanent

Defines verification strategies and develops test frameworks for safety-critical embedded software, delivering requirements-based V&V, traceability and certification evidence. Applies automated testing, fuzz testing, fault injection and Monte Carlo simulation, with exposure to SPARK Ada and formal methods in an autonomy-assurance team. Hybrid, minimum three days on-site in Witney.

SPARK Ada

• London

Design and integrate RF front-ends, antennas and link budgets for defence platforms operating in contested electromagnetic environments, covering jamming, spoofing and EW resilience. Hands-on work with spectrum analysers, VNAs and signal generators, plus field and range trials, alongside electronics, software and systems engineers.

GNU Radio · MATLAB · HFSS +1