Software Development Engineer (Control & Autonomy)

QinetiQ • Farnborough, England, United Kingdom • Posted May 29, 2026

Location Farnborough, England

Job Type Full-time

Category Computer Occupations

Posted May 29, 2026

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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