Senior UAV Systems Engineer – Design and Integration

Overview

In this role you will lead the design, integration and troubleshooting of avionics and onboard systems for a flagship unmanned aircraft programme within a fast-growing startup. You work closely with senior engineering leadership and apply hands-on skills across avionics, comms, power, autopilot and payload interfaces. You will drive system integration, ensure testable and safe solutions, and help productise integration approaches. This is a mission-focused role where your work directly supports scalable, validated UAS capability.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension
• Company Share Scheme

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and troubleshoot UAS avionics and onboard systems
• Define avionics architecture, interfaces, power distribution, wiring and communications
• Support autopilot, telemetry, GNSS/INS, payload interfaces and ground-control integration
• Produce and maintain interface documents, wiring diagrams, configuration records and test evidence
• Support requirements capture, integration planning, ground test, SIL/HIL and flight test activities
• Identify and resolve integration risks and system-level issues
• Improve repeatability and maturity of systems and help productise integration approaches

Key requirements

• Strong background in UAS / aerospace / avionics / robotics / embedded systems / mechatronics
• Experience integrating avionics, communications, autopilots and/or payload interfaces
• Practical understanding of wiring, power and data interfaces, and HW/SW integration
• Confident fault-finding on complex integrated systems
• Test support experience (ground, field and/or flight test)
• Strong documentation and configuration-control habits
• Comfortable working hands-on in a small, fast-growing technical team

• practical problem-solving
• strong communication and documentation
• collaboration in a small team
• MAVLink
• CAN
• Ethernet

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