Drone Jobs

• Fareham
• Junior
• Permanent

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.

Microsoft Office · Google Workspace · GIS Software

• Oakley
• Lead · manages people

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.

FPGA · VHDL · Verilog +2

• Fareham
• Junior

Develops and maintains SysML models for underwater robotics product systems, capturing, decomposing and tracing customer requirements across the full project lifecycle. Bridges mechanical, electrical, electronic and software domains using model-based systems engineering, supporting both product customisation and R&D projects within the Seaeye business unit.

SysML · UML

• Denmark
• Remote

Hands-on field-based role supporting UAV/UAS operations, including system modifications, hardware integration, fault finding, diagnostics and maintenance at customer locations worldwide. Involves remote technical support, flight support, hazard mitigation, and delivering training, with significant international travel to remote or austere environments.

UAV · UAS

• .
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Rota: 6 weeks on / 2 weeks offPosition Overview:Your primary responsibility will be to provide support Windracers UAV to the highest possible standard, delivering maintenance, modification and essential logistics anywhere in the world. The role also demands a willingness to…

• Fareham
• Hybrid
• Junior
• Permanent

Supports the Regulations & Safety team in developing airspace change requests, operational safety cases, SORA and other regulatory submissions, ensuring continued compliance and enabling VLOS and BVLOS operations. Duties include tracking applications, using GIS software to develop airspace structures, coordinating with flight operations, and assisting the Safety Manager with investigations. Suited to a recent graduate or junior aviation professional moving into uncrewed aviation regulation.

GIS · Microsoft Office · Google Workspace

• Burton-on-Trent
• Hybrid
• £75,000 – £80,000 pa
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead day-to-day delivery of UAV and Drone-in-a-Box services across multiple customer sites nationwide, coordinating people, equipment and technical resources. Translate customer requirements into operational plans, manage schedules and capacity, monitor SLAs and budgets, and mobilise new contracts. Involves office, field and home-based working with regular UK travel.

UAV · Drone-in-a-Box · Autonomous Systems +5

• 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

• Lincoln
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Day-to-day running of an AS9100 Engineering Quality Management System, coordinating assurance across engineering and maintenance teams. Maintains controlled records, plans internal audits, logs non-conformities and corrective actions, and reports KPIs and risks to the Head of Engineering, with occasional travel to support deployed teams.

• London
• Mid-level

Bridges product engineering and deployed operations for the Ghost unmanned air vehicle program, executing flight operations, field maintenance, and customer training. Acts as product SME advising on operational employment, running test and evaluation events, and performing root-cause analyses for air systems in austere, remote environments.

Python · MATLAB · VTOL

• London
• Senior

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.

Linux · Lattice OS · TEMPEST +7

• 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

• Bristol
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Senior safety professional responsible for developing and assuring aviation safety management across civil and military air operations. Acts as focal point for air safety, liaising with the MAA, CAA, EASA and MOD duty holders, managing risk registers, safety cases, occurrence reporting and audits, and delivering safety training. Based in Bristol or Swindon with frequent UK and international travel.

MAA Regulatory Publications · CAA CAP 722 · ICAO Annexes +5

• Hitchin
• On-site
• £35,000 – £44,000 pa

Hands-on role building, assembling and maintaining fixed-wing UAVs across R&D and production programmes, including airframe construction with balsa, composite repairs, and integration of propulsion, avionics and flight control systems. Involves testing, fault-finding and prototype development for target drone and counter-drone platforms in a workshop-based aerospace setting.

Orange Cube · Pixhawk · Mission Planner +1