Arupilot Software Engineer

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

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 Ardu Pilot-based systems across simulation and live flight environments.for defence and advanced aviation applications.

• Developing and configuring Ardu Pilot-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

• Strong hands‑on experience with Ardu Pilot, PX4 or similar autopilot stacks
• MAVLink and UAV communication protocols
• UAV tuning, Mission Planner, MAVProxy or similar tooling
• Experience with CAN, SPI, I2C, UDP or TCP

• 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.