Senior UAV Flight Test Engineer

Salary: £62,000 | Start:
Aug-Sep 2026 | Onsite / Hybrid
No visa sponsorship is available. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

We're hiring a senior, hands-on flight test and assurance engineer to plan and deliver UAS test campaigns and produce the evidence needed for operational approvals. This role blends practical flight-test execution with strong test discipline (plans, readiness, reporting) and the ability to translate assurance / safety / regulatory expectations into usable, traceable test evidence. Longer term, there's scope to grow into V&V leadership as the programme scales.

• Plan and deliver ground, integration and flight-test campaigns
• Write and maintain test plans, test cards, procedures, readiness reviews, risk controls and post-test reports
• Turn safety, assurance and operational approval requirements into practical test evidence
• Support regulator-facing technical discussions alongside internal regulatory/airspace leads
• Coordinate deployments: sites, equipment, logistics, test asset readiness and operational planning
• Drive credible evidence for software-enabled functions (e.g., autonomy-related claims, detect-and-avoid mitigations)
• Identify pragmatic tools / COTS systems that reduce...