Autopilot Engineer

STARK
Full-time South-Africa, South-Africa Other-General
Posted:
February 28, 2026
Location:
South-Africa, South-Africa, South-Africa

Job Description

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 into the controller.
Integrating it into our simulation via s...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: South-Africa, South-Africa
Posted: February 28, 2026
Deadline: April 09, 2026