Applications Engineer – Autonomous Systems

We’re looking for an Applications Engineer to support the integration, commissioning and troubleshooting of advanced navigation and sensing technology across autonomous, robotic, marine and defence applications.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role for someone who enjoys working across hardware, software and data. You’ll help customers integrate complex sensing systems onto real-world platforms, investigate technical issues and support systems through commissioning and deployment.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Strong systems integration, applications or field engineering experience
• Hands-on integration and troubleshooting of electronic / sensor-based systems
• Comfortable working across hardware, software and data
• Experience analysing logs, test data and system behaviour to diagnose issues
• Strong customer-facing communication and technical problem-solving skills
• Experience integrating systems onto autonomous, robotic, marine or similarly complex platforms
• Comfortable supporting commissioning, testing and real-world deployments

Desirable:

• GNSS, INS, IMU or other positioning / navigation technologies
• UAV, UGV, ROV or AUV platforms
• Robotics or autonomous systems
• Subsea / marine technology
• Python and/or MATLAB
• ROS / ROS2
• SDKs and APIs
• Telemetry and communications protocols
• Sensor calibration, configuration or data analysis

Additional Information

• Permanent, full-time position
• Competitive salary depending on experience
• UK-based role
• Customer-facing position combining technical engineering with real-world applications
• Opportunity to work across autonomous, robotics, marine and defence environments
• Some customer-site / deployment travel should be expected