National AI Awards 2025Discover AI's trailblazers! Join us to celebrate innovation and nominate industry leaders.

Nominate & Attend

Software Engineer

Colgate
5 months ago
Applications closed

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Principal Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Head of Business Development and Sales

Drone Operator Pilot - Graduate Considered

Drone Operator Pilot - Graduate Considered

Innova Search is proudly representing an esteemed market leader within the electronics and mechanical sector. The business is widely known for its cutting-edge research and development across a wide-array of products. The business provides innovative products to a range of sectors (scientific, automotive, defence, industrial manufacturing), adhering to strict industry standards.

The business provides a unique opportunity to work across a multitude of projects, at varying stages of the roadmap, with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation.

The Role:

This role will deliver innovative software solutions to support both new and existing products, ensuring they remain market-leading and meet the expectations of the company’s global customers, brand values, and standards. You will collaborate with the Innovation Manager and software design engineer to execute the product development plan, ensuring adherence to Design Language Guidelines and compliance with relevant EU Directives. The Lead Software Design Engineer plays a critical role in delivering the company's NPD plan on schedule while also contributing to the growth and effectiveness of the Innovation Team.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure new products consistently align with brand values by adhering to established design guidelines

  • Identify and advocate for the adoption of emerging technologies and processes to maintain market-leading products. Inspire and encourage innovative thinking and creative design solutions within the Innovation team

  • Establish rigorous testing protocols to ensure all new products are thoroughly tested, surpassing design limits to guarantee durability in real-world conditions

  • Provide training, tools, fixtures, test rigs, BOMs, processes, build manuals, quality plans, etc., to facilitate the smooth transition of new products into mainstream production

  • Offer support and guidance to the Software Design Engineer in fulfilling their responsibilities within the P2P documentation, ensuring timely delivery

  • Foster and encourage continuous improvement in working methods

    Focus Areas:

  • Design with manufacturability in mind

  • Prioritise reliability in design

  • Consider operator or environmental misuse during the design process

  • Apply user-centered design principles (informed by user research and rapid prototyping) to create intuitive products that ideally eliminate the need for an operator's manual

  • Focus on ease of fault diagnosis and serviceability during design

  • Ensure technical project documentation is thorough, supporting product compliance with the product development life cycle across design, development, unit testing/TDD/Mocking, and agile methodologies, while adhering to the latest EU directives such as EMC, RoHS, WEEE

    Personal Attributes:

  • Adaptable and motivated, able to embrace and react to evolving demands

  • Trustworthy, sincere, and authentic

  • Strong interpersonal abilities

  • Collaborative team contributor

  • Steady under pressure and composed

  • Committed and diligent

  • Upholds high standards of integrity and professionalism

    Experience Required:

  • The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in software disciplines, preferably with experience in the manufacturing sector

  • A minimum of HND qualification in software, science, or mathematics is required

  • Proficiency in C#, JavaScript, Node.js, and Next.js is essential

  • Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming principles

  • Familiarity with WPF, MVVM, AWS, JSON, HTML, and web technologies

  • Expertise in .NET, LINQ, SQL Server, SQLite, GitHub, Visual Studio

    If you feel you have the relevant experience for this position, please click "apply" now
National AI Awards 2025

Subscribe to Future Tech Insights for the latest jobs & insights, direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

How to Present UAV Solutions to Non-Technical Audiences: A Public Speaking Guide for Job Seekers

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are revolutionising industries—from agriculture and infrastructure to emergency response and environmental monitoring. But as UAVs become more advanced, so does the need to clearly explain what they do, how they work, and why they matter to people outside the engineering world. Whether you're applying for a UAV pilot role, drone software engineer position, regulatory consultant, or operations manager, your ability to present UAV technology and applications to non-technical audiences is a skill that UK employers are increasingly testing in interviews. This guide will help you structure your presentation, simplify technical content, design clear visuals, and confidently respond to common stakeholder questions—so you can stand out in interviews and lead effectively on the job.

UAV Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now

Bookmark this guide – refreshed every quarter – so you always know who’s really growing their drone and unmanned‑aviation teams. A new CAA sandbox for BVLOS flights, the Future Flight Challenge’s £300 million tranche and booming demand for aerial data are driving a record year for UK UAV hiring in 2025. Employers need platform engineers, flight‑control software developers, remote‑pilots, payload specialists, geospatial analysts, U‑space safety experts & regulatory consultants right now. Below are 50 organisations that have posted UK‑based UAV vacancies or announced head‑count growth during the past eight weeks. They’re grouped into five quick‑scan categories. For each company you’ll find: Main UK hub Example live or recent vacancy Why it’s worth a look – technology focus, culture, mission Search any employer on UAVJobs.co.uk to see live adverts, or set up a free alert so brand‑new openings land straight in your inbox.

Return-to-Work Pathways: Relaunch Your UAV Career with Returnships, Flexible & Hybrid Roles

Re-entering the workforce after a career break—whether for parenting, caring responsibilities or another life chapter—can feel like navigating a new flight path, especially in the high-tech world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Fortunately, the UK’s rapidly expanding drone sector now offers a variety of return-to-work pathways, from structured returnships to flexible and hybrid roles. These programmes value the transferable skills and resilience you’ve honed, pairing you with mentorship, targeted upskilling and supportive networks so you can ascend back into UAV operations, development or management with confidence. In this guide, you’ll discover how to: Understand the booming demand for UAV talent in the UK Translate your organisational, communication and problem-solving skills into UAV roles Overcome common re-entry challenges with practical solutions Refresh your technical and regulatory knowledge through targeted learning Access returnship and re-entry programmes tailored to the UAV sector Find roles that fit around family commitments—whether flexible, hybrid or full-time Balance your career relaunch with caring responsibilities Master applications, interviews and networking specific to UAVs Draw inspiration from real returner success stories Get answers to common questions in our FAQ section Whether you aspire to return as a flight operations manager, autonomy engineer, maintenance technician or survey pilot, this article maps out the steps and resources you need to relaunch your UAV career.