You are the hands-on engineering presence in the UK. You stand up the UK lab, integrate Xtend systems for UK customers, execute customer-funded development locally, and resolve issues in the field. This is a builder-operator role spanning bench work, field work, software, and customer-facing engineering. The candidate who thrives here wants to build a lab from an empty room and put systems into operators' hands.
Core responsibilities
Stand up and run the UK lab from a blank room - bench, tools, test rigs, secure storage, configuration control. Specify it, source it, build it.
Integrate, configure, and test Xtend UAV and unmanned systems against UK customer requirements.
Execute customer-funded development tasks and modifications in the UK, with international engineering teams as your peer-level backstop.
Support delivery, demos, training, and field events - bringing genuine technical depth on the ground, not just briefings.
Own first-line technical troubleshooting on UK-deployed systems. When the call comes in, you respond.
Run the UK technical asset register, firmware and software baselines, and integration records.
Feed UK field learnings back into the global engineering roadmap. You are engineering's eyes and hands on the customer side.
Requirements
BEng / BSc or equivalent in electronics, mechatronics, aerospace, robotics, or related engineering discipline. Strong self-taught engineers will be considered.
3-7 years hands-on engineering on UAVs, robotics, embedded systems, or comparable hardware-software products.
Genuinely bench-capable: soldering, harnessing, debug, configuration, basic mechanical work. Comfortable with the kit, not only the documentation.