Arupilot Software Engineer

ArduPilot Software Engineer

Salisbury | £50,000 - £60,000 | Security Clearance Eligible

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.

UAVs are a hot topic!

There is a radpidly growing number of companies that now build these platforms, but not all are operationally proven; making a difference where it matters and building futrue designs and iterations on real feedback.

This one is.

Here you'll help develop these next-generation uncrewed aircraft platforms whilst sitting in the flight controls team. You'll develop and test ArduPilot-based systems across simulation and live flight environments.for defence and advanced aviation applications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing and configuring ArduPilot-based flight control systems
• UAV tuning, flight testing and log analysis
• Sensor integration including GPS, cameras and LiDAR
• Supporting simulation environments and software architecture
• Working across embedded software, communications and flight systems

Key Experience Needed:

• Strong hands-on experience with ArduPilot, PX4 or similar autopilot stacks
• C++ development experience
• MAVLink and UAV communication protocols
• UAV tuning, Mission Planner, MAVProxy or similar tooling
• Experience with CAN, SPI, I2C, UDP or TCP

Desirable Experience to have:

• Linux or SITL environments
• Lua, Python or Rust
• Flight control systems or control theory exposure

This is a hybrid role, doign 3 days a week onsite. xwzovoh For immediate consideration, please apply.