UAS Software Engineer

Findrs; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Findrs is recruiting a UAS Software Engineer — Autonomy & Onboard Systems to join a team turning individual aircraft into a coordinated system. You’ll work across onboard software, systems autonomy and cloud integration to connect the aircraft to the bigger picture.

You’ll help develop onboard software, build hardware abstraction layers, and connect systems with MQTT and AWS across edge, IoT and cloud to support swarm orchestration.

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics or UAV software.
• Ability to integrate onboard and cloud systems across architectures.
• Hands-on experience with MQTT, AWS and onboard firmware.
• Interest in autonomy and embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop onboard software and firmware for unmanned aircraft.
• Build hardware abstraction layers for cross‑stack integration.
• Connect aircraft systems with cloud orchestration using MQTT and AWS.
• Solve deployment and networking challenges across edge, IoT and cloud.
• Develop foundations for drone swarm orchestration.
• Shape the architecture as infrastructure evolves toward AWS.
• Collaborate between flight-control engineers and cloud data teams.

Skills

Onboard software

Firmware development

Cloud integration

MQTT

AWS

Edge computing

IoT

Drone swarm

Embedded software

System architecture

Job description

UAS Software Engineer — Autonomy & Onboard Systems

How do you get a swarm of drones working together?

You need software that connects what happens onboard each aircraft with the systems coordinating it.

Joining an aerospace technology business developing advanced unmanned aircraft, you’ll work across onboard software, systems-level autonomy and cloud integration—helping turn individual aircraft into a coordinated system.

Connect the aircraft to the bigger picture.

Your work will span the software running onboard, the interfaces connecting it to hardware and the infrastructure supporting deployment and orchestration.

You’ll help:

• Develop onboard software and firmware.
• Build custom hardware abstraction layers.
• Connect aircraft systems with cloud orchestration using MQTT and AWS.
• Solve deployment and networking challenges across edge, IoT and cloud systems.
• Develop the software foundations for drone-swarm orchestration.
• Shape the architecture as infrastructure moves from Railway towards AWS.

You’ll work between flight-control engineering and an existing software lead responsible for cloud systems and data pipelines. Your contribution will help those two worlds work together.

You enjoy solving problems across system boundaries.

You might describe yourself as a robotics software engineer, an autonomy engineer or an embedded software engineer.

What interests you is how the whole system behaves: how onboard software interacts with hardware, how devices communicate and how cloud services coordinate activity in the field.

Experience across robotics, UAVs, connected devices or edge-to-cloud systems could be relevant. MQTT, AWS, onboard firmware, hardware abstraction and networking are particularly useful areas to bring into the conversation.

If you’ve worked on fleet coordination, multi-agent systems or swarm orchestration, we’d be interested to hear what you built.

Help shape a role that’s still taking shape.

This position combines software and autonomy responsibilities. The scope is still being refined, giving you the opportunity to contribute to how the work is defined as well as how it gets delivered.

You’ll suit an environment where requirements evolve and you enjoy working through technical questions with colleagues across different disciplines.