Technical Engineer

Job description

Description 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...