Drone Jobs

• 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

• Rotherham
• On-site
• £43,672 pa
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the Robotics UAS curriculum at a Defence Technical Education Centre, acting as technical authority for drone and autonomous hardware training. You will co-design employer-led programmes with the MoD and aerospace suppliers, coach teaching staff, and enforce a unified technical standard across regional hubs.

Drone Technology · Autonomous Hardware Frameworks

• 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

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £70,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior

Design, build and test RF-based systems from concept through to manufacture, working on airborne radars, drone sensors and LSWaP devices for GPS and radar communication. Collaborate with experts and customers to establish requirements, with hybrid working of three days a week in a state-of-the-art lab and R&D facility.

GPS · IoT

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £80,000 – £120,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Lead a 12-person software engineering team building real-time embedded systems for critical infrastructure protection, reporting to the CTO. Own capability, delivery, standards and technical direction across the full product lifecycle, translating customer requirements into engineering plans. Requires C++ and embedded background plus security clearance eligibility.

NVIDIA Jetson · Linux

• Cambridgeshire
• Hybrid
• £350 – £450 pd
• Contract

Contract CAD engineering role in the aerospace sector, creating accurate 3D geometry from existing designs and CAD data for specialist UAS sub-module components and assemblies. Day-to-day work includes smooth surface and skeleton modelling in Creo, WINDCHILL data management, the AAX plugin, and aerodynamic enclosures or radomes, liaising with manufacturing facilities for fast-turnaround production.

Creo · WINDCHILL · AAX Plugin +1

• 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.

JAMA

• Witney
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £40,000 – £60,000 pa

Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for autonomous systems, building runtime assurance components and high-integrity code using SPARK Ada and related toolchains. Work spans software architecture for certifiable systems, DAL-A/DAL-B solutions, and integration with mission computers, flight control and safety monitoring. Minimum three days per week on site in Witney.

SPARK Ada · ROS · ROS2 +3

• London
• Mid-level

Designs and runs environmental stress test campaigns on drone sub-systems and ground support equipment, covering vibration, shock, thermal cycling, ingress, salt spray, altitude and fatigue testing. Works as a generalist across hardware domains in the "Physical Reality" test cluster, using strain gauges, accelerometers and DAQ systems to map failure envelopes and validate survivability.

Vibration Tables · Shock Rigs · Thermal Chambers +7

• 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
• Mid-level

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.

Linux · Unix · JIRA +2

• 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
• Hybrid
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Lead

Hands-on technical leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, combining architecture ownership with mentoring engineers and facilitating Scrum delivery. Focus on real-time embedded software in C, C++ and Python for autonomous and safety-critical systems, with hardware/software integration and controlled development lifecycles.

DO-178C · ISO 26262 · IEC 61508

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

Own the full RF lifecycle, designing, building and testing complex RF-based systems such as drone sensors, space-based radars and emergency-services comms. Work in a multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts with access to anechoic chambers and advanced spectrum/network analysis equipment, taking modules from concept through to design verification.

Anechoic Chambers · Spectrum Analysers · Network Analysers

• 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