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Founding Controls & Aerospace Engineer
Job Posted: 22 hours ago
Salary: £ 30,000 - 70,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Swindon, Wiltshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Founding Controls / Aerospace Engineer
📍 Swindon-based with regular travel to Kyiv | 🕐 Full-time
💰 Up to £70,000 + 3% equity | Travel, housing & training covered
Build tech that saves lives.
I've partnered with an exciting mission led start-up. They're prototyping a solution that will directly save lives by fighting back against unmanned drone attacks. Their early in the journey, they have a mission, small team and basic prototype that they are still iterating. You'll be part of every aspect of design & development to bring this product to life over the next 6 months and production over the next 12 months.
They're building hand-launched micro-missiles to intercept drones at short range, small enough to fit in a vest, affordable enough for wide use, and fast enough to matter. Working directly with Ukrainian brigades and testing at a private UK site to build real hardware that stops drones from killing civilians.
We're now looking for a Founding Controls / Aerospace Engineer to join the core team. You'll lead the development of control algorithms, flight surfaces, and onboard system behaviour from simulation environments to hardware-in-the-loop and live-fire field testing.
🔧 What you'll do:
Design and implement control algorithms for fin-guided flight
Simulate and optimize aerodynamic surfaces and system dynamics
Integrate sensors, actuators, and flight control hardware
Build and run software- and hardware-in-the-loop setups
Work with the full engineering team to test, tune, and iterate in the field✅ What we're looking for:
Experience building control systems for missiles, UAVs, drones or similar
Deep understanding of control theory, flight dynamics, and real-time systems
Experience with simulation tools (e.g. MATLAB/Simulink, Gazebo, custom tools)
Systems thinker with the ability to work across software, hardware, and design teams
Citizen of a NATO country or Ukraine
Willing to work on-site in Swindon and travel to Kyiv for field workBonus points for:
Electrical, embedded systems, or computer vision experience
Background in startup, rapid prototyping, or defence innovation
Previous experience with missile, rocket or guided flight systems🚀 Why join?
Impact - Build frontline tech to save lives
Ownership - We're still prototyping, you can be a huge part of the design journey
Team - Work with experts from Stanford, Imperial, & special forces
Support - Salary, all travel expenses + 3% equity, any training coveredThis is not a research role. This is building, testing, iterating - fast.
If you're an engineering whizz, ambitious, love a challenge and want your work to have some real-world impact that you can be proud of. Apply or give me a call.
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