37 jobs for “Drone Software Engineer”
Flarebright Bicester £39,000 – £49,000 pa
Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.
Platform Recruitment Cambridge £45,000 – £65,000 pa
Design and develop embedded firmware for advanced radar and sensing systems used in UAV applications. Work across the full product lifecycle in a collaborative, engineering-led environment using C/C++ on STM32 microcontrollers in bare-metal and RTOS environments. Engage in system-level debugging and contribute to software architecture for next-generation sensing technologies.
ECM Selection Cambridge £90,000 – £130,000 pa
Senior engineer focused on mechanical design for drone detection and tracking systems, solving complex challenges, refining concepts and supporting prototyping in workshop and customer settings. Also involved in PCB-level electronics design, overseeing development and integration with mechanical systems within a small, specialised team.
ECM Selection Cambridge £55,000 – £70,000 pa
Hands-on optical engineering role designing systems with lasers, lenses and cameras, taking products from concept through verification and troubleshooting to production readiness. Works closely with electronics, software and AI colleagues in a multidisciplinary team, integrating optical components with electromechanical systems, ideally using machine learning for machine vision.
Helsing London
Shape the system architecture, requirements and certification evidence for a jet-powered interceptor within an air defence system. Day to day you elicit stakeholder needs, maintain a JAMA requirements baseline, run trade studies and MBSE architecture work, own interface control documents and coordinate safety and certification activities.
Blighter Surveillance Services Ltd Saffron Walden
OverviewOn the back of a record orderbook, we are developing our next generation radar system and other advanced electronic systems. We are building up our Electronics Engineering team with a mix of skills and experiences covering both Analogue and Digital...
SR2 Andover £50,000 – £75,000 pa
Hands-on role developing, integrating and testing autonomous aircraft systems, working with Linux-based robotics using ROS 2, ArduPilot/PX4 autopilots and MAVLink communications in Python and C++. You'll support aircraft build, flight trials and system tuning, contributing to operational readiness including CAA regulations and SORA risk assessments, with direct access to leadership in a small defence-focused team.
Robinson Brown Search Bromsgrove £40,000 – £50,000 pa
Solar PV Technician/service engineer. - All projects within 1hr radius of the Midlands.Job SummaryMy client is seeking a skilled and reliable Electrician to join their Midlands-based team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing solar, battery...
Copello Hitchin £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.
Tekever Swindon
Hands-on shop-floor role at a new Swindon drone manufacturing facility, covering goods-in and receiving, stores and inventory control, kitting and line-side feed, and dispatch and shipping. Works closely with Supply Chain, Production Planning & Control, Quality and the electronics and integration cells, using ERP systems, handheld scanners and material-handling equipment to keep physical stock and system records aligned as the site scales.
Tekever Swindon
Hands-on build role assembling, integrating and testing Unmanned Aerial System airframes and sub-systems, covering structural work such as bracketry, precision drilling and fastening plus avionics wiring, flight control and sensor installation. Also involves ground tests, fault diagnosis and completing certification and traceability records to ISO 9001/AS9100 standards within a manufacturing operations 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.
Helsing Munich - Berlin - London - Paris
Build and scale a GPU-based simulator that trains reinforcement-learning agents for air autonomy, modelling flight dynamics and sensing across thousands of parallel environments. Work spans sim-to-real transfer, domain randomisation and RL training tooling, at the intersection of AI, GPU computing and physics-based simulation, with room to grow into leadership.
Rise Technical Recruitment Witney £50,000 – £60,000 pa
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.
Anduril London
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.
Anduril London
Bridges product engineering and deployed operations for the Altius program, executing flight operations, field maintenance and customer training. Deploys to austere locations to troubleshoot hardware, software and networking issues, run root-cause analyses and shape long-term sustainment of aerial systems.
