Senior Guidance Software Engineer

Are you a Senior Guidance Software Engineer ready to lead guidance software design on a clean sheet airframe? Do you enjoy applying deep technical expertise to flight critical systems in demanding defence environments? Do you want to work on software driven platforms that deliver decisive time advantage? If so, this opportunity may be the right next step for you.

This organisation develops advanced sensing and guidance technologies for defence and security applications. Its platforms use distributed intelligence architectures to remove single point system dependencies, combining synchronised sensing, signal processing and artificial intelligence to enable earlier detection and faster decision making. The business delivers modular, software driven solutions that operate across both government and commercial environments.

The Senior Guidance Software Engineer will join a research and development team responsible for delivering guidance and navigation software for a new airframe programme. Based on site, the role combines algorithm development, embedded software engineering and system integration on flight hardware.

• Implementing guidance and navigation software within commercial autopilot frameworks
• Supporting airframe design through close collaboration with engineering teams
• Integrating and validating software on flight hardware platforms
• Developing embedded software across microcontroller and Linux based systems
• Contributing technical expertise across evolving product families

• A degree in computer science computer engineering aerospace engineering or a related field
• Extensive experience in object oriented software development for aerospace systems
• Proven delivery of guidance algorithms for unmanned aircraft platforms
• C++ and Python flight software development for safety critical systems
• Guidance and autonomy development for UAS platforms using PX4 and iNAV
• MAVLink based command and control architectures
• Eligibility to access United States only data systems

This role offers the Effector Guidance Software Engineer the opportunity to work on resilient, software driven platforms that replace legacy architectures and enable earlier operational advantage. The environment supports rapid innovation, decentralised system design and continuous capability expansion across mission critical applications.

All successful applicants will be contacted within two working days.