Principal Guidance & Control Systems Engineer

Edge Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and depend..

Education allowances for children

Tax-free salaries

Job summary

EDGE Group PJSC seeks a Principal Systems Engineer - Guidance & Control to lead the derivation of requirements, design inner- and outer-loop control laws, and develop guidance algorithms for complex autonomous systems in the UAE. You will supervise model-based analyses, verification activities, and flight-test support in a high-technology defence environment.

Ideal candidates hold a 10+ year track record in aerospace or safety-critical control systems, with a Master/PhD preferred, and fluent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace or related discipline.
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant aerospace or safety-critical control-system experience.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Ability to lead significant Guidance & Control work packages.

Responsibilities

• Derive G&C requirements from aircraft, mission, safety, operational, and flying-quality requirements.
• Define functional and performance requirements for control laws, guidance, autopilot, and control allocation.
• Develop control-law architectures, mode structures, command hierarchies, and interfaces.
• Define required state, sensor, navigation, actuator, propulsion, and configuration inputs and outputs.
• Design inner-loop stabilization and outer-loop command functions.
• Develop longitudinal, lateral-directional, and coupled-axis control laws.
• Develop gain schedules and scheduling-variable logic across the operating envelope.
• Develop envelope protection, command limiting, reconfiguration, and degraded-mode functions.
• Design guidance algorithms for applicable mission phases.
• Ensure guidance commands are dynamically feasible and compatible with vehicle and control limits.
• Develop control-allocation and effector-management algorithms.
• Develop trim, linear, control-oriented, uncertainty, and frequency-response models.
• Perform modal, eigenvalue, time-domain, frequency-domain, and nonlinear analyses.
• Establish margins for gain, phase, delay, disk, multiloop, and robustness.
• Assess actuator activity, sensor-noise transmission, disturbance rejection, structural-mode interaction, and nonlinearities.
• Define verification cases, acceptance criteria, coverage, and evidence.
• Conduct linear, nonlinear, Monte Carlo, worst-case, failure-case, and sensitivity analyses.
• Support SIL, PIL, HIL, pilot-in-the-loop, ground, and flight testing.
• Compare reference models with production-software implementation.
• Assess timing, numerical precision, execution order, initialization, and interface behavior.
• Produce control-law design descriptions, guidance reports, robustness assessments, verification reports, release notes, and limitation statements.
• Mentor engineers and conduct technical peer reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Requirements derivation

Control-law design

Guidance & Control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, Control, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related discipline

Master’s degree or PhD in Flight Control, Guidance, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, or a related field (preferred)

Job description

EDGE Group PJSC seeks a Principal Systems Engineer - Guidance & Control to lead the derivation of requirements, design inner- and outer-loop control laws, and develop guidance algorithms for complex autonomous systems in the UAE. You will supervise model-based analyses, verification activities, and flight-test support in a high-technology defence environment.

Ideal candidates hold a 10+ year track record in aerospace or safety-critical control systems, with a Master/PhD preferred, and fluent