Electrical Hardware Engineer

£30K - £45K GBP • 0.10% - 0.25% • London, England, GB Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Embedded systems Experience 1+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills Altium

About the role

About Us

"Seeing Systems is building autonomous drone systems that can perceive, navigate, and act intelligently in complex real-world environments." We're advancing autonomy through monocular vision, sensor fusion, and robust system design - drones that keep working where traditional systems fail, supported by an agentic stack that reduces operator cognitive load. Our first product is an FPV-class drone built from the ground up with a modular hardware architecture. If we get the first platform right, we can move fast on everything else: larger airframes, longer range, new payloads, and new mission profiles without rebuilding the stack each time. We were founded by brothers Matthew and Alexander Le Maitre. Matthew is a former Jane Street engineer and Cambridge CS graduate with a background in autonomous systems research. Alexander is a self-taught hardware engineer who has been building unmanned systems and military-grade electronics. We're an early-stage, fast-moving team working at the intersection of robotics, perception, and real-world deployment. We iterate weekly. We test in real environments.

The Role

You will design, build, and test the electronics inside our platforms as a core member of our growing hardware team. That means hands-on electrical engineering work across our aircraft and ground stations: PCB design and layout, board bring-up, power systems, harnessing, sensor integration, and test support. You'll take ownership of defined subsystems and see them through from schematic to a working board on a flying aircraft. You'll report to our Founding Hardware Engineer and work closely with Alex, our co-founder and hardware lead. This is a role for an engineer early in their career who wants to grow fast: you'll be given real responsibility, real deadlines, and real feedback from the field, with senior engineers beside you at the bench. Within 30 days: you've assembled, brought up, and debugged boards on one of our platforms and joined a field test. Within 90 days: you've taken a subsystem board from schematic through layout to a validated revision flying on one of our drones.

What You'll Do

Design PCBs for defined subsystems under the direction of the Founding Hardware Engineer: sensor boards, power distribution, BMS, payload interfaces, and supporting electronics.
Own board bring-up and debug for your subsystems: soldering, rework, test fixtures, and fault-finding down to component level.
Support schematic capture and layout across the wider hardware stack, including design reviews, signal and power integrity checks, and documentation.
Design and build harnessing: connector selection, wiring, and integration of electronics into airframes and ground station hardware.
Support RF and wireless testing: telemetry, video downlink, and command & control range testing in the field.
Run test campaigns with our testing lead: prepare aircraft, capture data, log failures, and feed findings back into the next revision.
Work with manufacturers on quotes, DFM feedback, and incoming inspection as we scale production.
Use AI tools to accelerate design, firmware, and debug.

What We're Looking For

Minimum 2 years of hands-on electrical or electronics engineering experience (professional or equivalent portfolio).
PCB design experience in Altium or KiCad - taken at least one board from schematic to fabricated working hardware.
Solid grounding in analog, digital, and power electronics fundamentals.
Confident at the bench: soldering (including fine-pitch rework), oscilloscopes, multimeters, methodical fault-finding.
Comfortable bridging "works on bench" to "works at range in field."
Bias toward shipping products quickly.
Comfortable testing in real-world environments.

Nice to Have

Defence, aerospace or UAV industry experience.
Personal experience building/flying drones or unmanned systems.
Embedded work with STM32-class MCUs; protocols such as SPI,I2C,UART,...