Technical Engineer

You are the hands\-on engineering presence in the UK. You stand up the UK lab, integrate Xtend systems for UK customers, execute customer\-funded development locally, and resolve issues in the field. This is a builder\-operator role spanning bench work, field work, software, and customer\-facing engineering. The candidate who thrives here wants to build a lab from an empty room and put systems into operators' hands.

Core responsibilities

• Stand up and run the UK lab from a blank room \- bench, tools, test rigs, secure storage, configuration control. Specify it, source it, build it.


• Integrate, configure, and test Xtend UAV and unmanned systems against UK customer requirements.


• Execute customer\-funded development tasks and modifications in the UK, with international engineering teams as your peer\-level backstop.


• Support delivery, demos, training, and field events \- bringing genuine technical depth on the ground, not just briefings.


• Own first\-line technical troubleshooting on UK\-deployed systems. When the call comes in, you respond.


• Run the UK technical asset register, firmware and software baselines, and integration records.


• Feed UK field learnings back into the global engineering roadmap. You are engineering's eyes and hands on the customer side.

Requirements

• BEng / BSc or equivalent in electronics, mechatronics, aerospace, robotics, or related engineering discipline. Strong self\-taught engineers will be considered.


• 3\-7 years hands\-on engineering on UAVs, robotics, embedded systems, or comparable hardware\-software products.


• Genuinely bench\-capable: soldering, harnessing, debug, configuration, basic mechanical work. Comfortable with the kit, not only the documentation.


• Software literacy \- Linux, scripting, basic networking, comms protocols. Able to work with engineering teams as a technical peer.


• Multi\-disciplinary mindset. One day debugging hardware, the next running a customer demo, the week after specifying lab equipment.


• Fluent English; right to work in the UK.


• Strong advantage: UAV / counter\-UAS / UGV experience, RF and comms familiarity, CAA / Article 16 awareness, ex\-military technician background.

• Xtend UK is a fast\-growing defence\-tech company. Pace is high, structure is being built, and ownership is real.


• You will be expected to contribute beyond the formal scope of your role. Team members support each other to execute the mission successfully.


• Mission\-first mentality. We are building capability that ends up in the hands of operators \- that comes before process and hierarchy.


• This role is about experimentation, rapid iteration, and field problem\-solving as much as it is about formal engineering process.


• Lab build\-out and tooling decisions are yours to drive \- this is engineering from a blank room outwards.


• Field troubleshooting and customer\-facing technical support sit alongside bench and integration work. The role is multi\-disciplinary by design.


• Execution speed matters. We operate with urgency, high ownership, and a strong bias toward action.

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