Autopilot Engineer (Control) - (all genders)

Permanent employee, Full-time

Devon, South West England

About Us

STARK is bringing its expertise in software‑defined unmanned systems to the maritime domain. Traditional fleets alone cannot safeguard this vast, critical space. Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) extend naval reach at lower cost and reduced risk to personnel. Our maritime family of systems is AI‑enabled and built for reliable performance in the harshest seas, delivering NATO a fully integrated hardware–software capability for scalable ISR and strike operations.

Your mission

Reporting directly to the Head of the Control team, as an Autopilot Engineer you will help develop/customize autopilot firmware for autonomous system operations.

Responsibilities

• Optimise/modify/program autopilot firmware to process the commands of our autonomous system
• Make it compatible with our AI systems
• Testing, debugging both autopilot and its integration ...