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Software Development Engineer (Control & Autonomy)

📍 Location
Farnborough
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 29, 2026

About the Role

The Role

As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, developing and delivering autonomy solutions that support complex military aviation systems, helping shape the future of crewed and uncrewed operations.


Day-to-day, you’ll take ownership of technical work packages, contribute to research and development activities, and support the integration and testing of autonomy and control technologies from concept through to live trials.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Applying software & systems engineering principles to the development of control and autonomy solutions

  • Leading or contributing to algorithm development for autonomous and decision-support systems

  • Developing production-level autonomy software using C, ideally C++, with exposure to Matlab

  • Analysing and modelling uncrewed systems within synthetic environments

  • Supporting hardware integration, testing and formall...
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