Job Description

Mechanical Design Engineer | Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Location: Birmingham

Salary: up to £45K

Full time | Permanent

Design hardware that operates where failure isn’t an option

Are you a Mechanical Design Engineer working on drones, UAVs, robotics or advanced electromechanical products — and starting to feel boxed in by incremental upgrades or overly siloed roles?

This is an opportunity to take full ownership of real, mission‑critical hardware , from concept through to manufacture, in a fast‑moving engineering team building autonomous inspection systems for extreme environments.

What You’ll Be Working On

You’ll be designing field‑deployable robotic hardware that must survive:

  • Harsh weather and corrosive environments
  • High consequence failure scenarios

Your role spans the entire product lifecycle :

  • Concept design, prototyping an...

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