Robotics Engineer, UAV Systems — End-to-End Platform Dev

Minerva Defence; Worcester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options vesting over three years

Bupa private health insurance

6% employer pension contribution

25 days leave plus bank holidays

AI tooling access

Relocation support / home office

Job summary

Minerva Defence is seeking a robotics engineer to join a hands-on, end-to-end platform team in the UK. You will own hardware integration, software development, and flight validation, with hands-on flight testing in the short term.

You will work closely with users to understand needs, develop capabilities from concept to field use, and contribute to autonomy and sensing roadmaps as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Solid, applied experience in robotics engineering, not just academic familiarity.
• Hands-on work with robotic navigation, SLAM, or computer vision in a real system.
• Comfortable working across hardware and software, the full stack of a physical system.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of new platform capabilities end to end, from requirement through to field validation
• Integrate hardware including sensors, camera systems, and communications equipment into the platform
• Develop software across perception, navigation, and communications, with real accountability for what ships
• Work on robotic navigation challenges including SLAM and localisation in GPS-constrained environments
• Take part in flight testing and validation.
• Work directly with users; their feedback is your brief
• Contribute to the long-term autonomy and sensing roadmap for the platform

Skills

Robotics engineering

ROS

Python

SLAM

Tools

Cameras

Sensors

Job description

Minerva Defence is seeking a robotics engineer to join a hands-on, end-to-end platform team in the UK. You will own hardware integration, software development, and flight validation, with hands-on flight testing in the short term.

You will work closely with users to understand needs, develop capabilities from concept to field use, and contribute to autonomy and sensing roadmaps as the team grows.