Graphic · Office life

Interior photograph of the Betws-y-Coed workshop — workbenches, monitors, mountain views through the window. Working, not posed. Replace with real photography.

How we work

Three rules and a town.

Our working agreement is short. Our office is in Betws-y-Coed, surrounded by mountain passes and slate mines. Our team is small enough that every person ships.

01
Ship. Every week.
The default cadence is weekly. Every engineer pushes something to a running system every week. If that is not physically possible, the architecture is wrong.
02
One seat, one voice.
No status meetings. No committees. No shadow org-chart. You own a thing, you decide. You need sign-off, you ask the one person who owns the constraint.
03
Live here. Work here.
We are a small-town company. We relocate you, help with housing, and we all eat lunch together. Most of our engineers pick up enough Welsh in a year to order at the pub.
Compensation & benefits

Fair and transparent.

Every role publishes its salary band. Equity is real, vests over four years, with a one-year cliff. No free kombucha — instead, the chef makes lunch.

£65–£140k
Engineering salary bands
0.05–1.0%
Equity range · early team
£5k
Relocation package to Conwy
32d
Holiday · includes St David's Day
Open roles

Where we need you.

Roles are listed in the order we need to hire them. Apply even if you are a close-but-imperfect match — we read every application personally.

Firmware Lead Flight-Controls Engineer · DF-5 Betws-y-Coed Full-time · £110–140k Cryptography Senior PQC Engineer · Cipher OS Betws-y-Coed / Remote UK Full-time · £100–130k Mechanical Senior Composites Engineer Betws-y-Coed / Deeside Full-time · £85–110k Hardware RF & SDR Engineer Betws-y-Coed Full-time · £85–115k Hardware Pod Systems Integration Engineer Betws-y-Coed Full-time · £80–105k Software C2 Platform Engineer · Orion Betws-y-Coed / Remote UK Full-time · £85–115k Operations Head of Manufacturing Betws-y-Coed Full-time · £120–160k Operator Operator-in-Residence (Ex-SOF / RAF / USAF) Betws-y-Coed Full-time · DOE Business Head of UK Programmes Betws-y-Coed / Bristol Full-time · £120–160k Business Head of US Programmes Arlington VA Full-time · $140–210k
Our process

Four steps. Two weeks. One decision.

We respect your time. Every application gets a human response, on average inside three working days. Interviews are capped at a working week's worth of contact.

01

Application

Short form. Résumé or link. One paragraph on why this, now. Reviewed by the hiring manager personally.

02

Conversation

45 minutes with the hiring manager. Not a test — a conversation about what you have built and what you would build here.

03

Work sample

A short, paid, real-engineering task from our backlog. Typically 4–8 hours, done at your own pace, with help available.

04

On-site

A day with the team in Betws-y-Coed. Lunch, a walk, a whiteboard, and a decision by the end of the following morning.

Don't see a match? Write anyway.

careers@dragonfod.com