Senior Autonomy Architect for Maritime USVs

Matchtech Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Holiday buy/sell

Flexi working

Private medical

Pension 5% employer

Life assurance 3x salary

Income protection

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing support

Membership reimbursement

Job summary

Matchtech Group is seeking a senior Solution Architect to own the end-to-end autonomy architecture for maritime/uncrewed systems in the UK defence sector. Translate customer missions into a coherent system architecture, delivery increments, and evidence-backed releases.

You will define the onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, communications, simulation environments, APIs, data models, and service contracts, leading cross-functional teams through phased releases and trials.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering autonomy/robotics systems.
• Strong systems engineering to translate requirements into architectures and interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with software, networks, sensors, simulation, testing, and field trials.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end autonomy architecture across onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, communications, simulation, APIs, data models and service contracts.
• Lead roadmap delivery by translating strategy into phased releases, manage dependencies, acceptance criteria, maturity, and operational readiness.
• Govern system integration, verification, and assurance with traceability from requirements to testing and release.
• Drive architecture standards, virtual integration environments, and safe operation models including fail-safe behaviours.
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams during design reviews, trials, commissioning, and early deployments.

Skills

Autonomy architecture

Systems engineering

Robotics design

Safety-critical systems

Stakeholder comms

C++/Python

Technical leadership

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

ROS 2

DDS

Job description

Matchtech Group is seeking a senior Solution Architect to own the end-to-end autonomy architecture for maritime/uncrewed systems in the UK defence sector. Translate customer missions into a coherent system architecture, delivery increments, and evidence-backed releases.

You will define the onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, communications, simulation environments, APIs, data models, and service contracts, leading cross-functional teams through phased releases and trials.