Five open positions across Britain's hard tech sector this week, two software, two hardware, one ops.
Software Engineering & AI
Senior Software Engineer — CHAOS Industries
Build the software behind CHAOS Industries' Coherent Distributed Networks platform and Vanquish counter-drone radar, at a defence sensing company valued at $4.5B in late 2025.
- Location: London (On-site)
AI Research Engineer, 3D Computer Vision — Helsing
Develop 3D perception models at Helsing, the €12B European defence AI company with a London HQ, multiple MoD contracts and a £350M UK investment commitment.
- Location: London (Hybrid)
Hardware Engineering
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer — Anduril
Take mechanical designs from concept through to production at Anduril, whose autonomous portfolio spans the Ghost and Fury drone families, counter-UAS systems and the Ghost Shark submarine.
- Location: London (On-site)
Plasma Spectroscopy Diagnostician — Proxima Fusion
Build and run spectroscopic diagnostics on plasma experiments at Proxima Fusion, a Max Planck spin-out developing quasi-isodynamic stellarators with high-temperature superconducting magnets. Based at the Culham Campus.
- Location: Oxford (On-site)
Commercial & Operations
Director of Quality — Olix
Establish quality systems ahead of first product shipments at Olix Computing, the London photonics startup building an Optical Tensor Processing Unit for AI inference, valued at over $1B.
- Location: London (On-site)
Browse the full board at hardtechuk.com/jobs. New roles added throughout the week.