Principal Navigation Systems Engineer – Sensor Fusion Lead

AL TARIQ; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, seeks a Principal Navigation Engineer to lead the development and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems in Abu Dhabi. You will own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor fusion, and verification across the lifecycle.

The role includes mentoring engineers, coordinating with GNC, Avionics, Software, RF, Simulation, and Flight Test teams, and delivering verification evidence. Strong English required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or safety-critical engineering, including substantial navigation experience.
• Hands-on experience with inertial, GNSS, aided, alternative, or resilient navigation systems.
• Strong knowledge of navigation algorithms, estimation filters, sensor-error modelling, calibration, alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink.
• Experience with navigation simulation, data analysis, and performance verification.
• Experience with MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground-test, and/or flight-test activities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead navigation functions, algorithms, subsystems, or technical work packages.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and verify navigation algorithms and sensor-fusion solutions.
• Define navigation requirements, architectures, error budgets, and verification criteria.
• Develop inertial mechanization, alignment, calibration, estimation, aiding, and fault-management functions.
• Analyze navigation accuracy, integrity, continuity, availability, latency, initialization, and drift.
• Perform Monte Carlo, covariance, observability, sensitivity, uncertainty, and robustness analyses.
• Support MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground, and flight-test activities.
• Analyze test data and investigate navigation anomalies, sensor disagreement, timing errors, and estimator divergence.
• Develop fault-detection, isolation, exclusion, reconfiguration, and recovery logic.
• Produce technical documentation, analysis reports, verification evidence, and lifecycle review inputs.
• Coordinate with GNC, Avionics, Software, RF, Simulation, Systems Engineering, Safety, Integration, and Flight Test teams.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership and peer review.

Skills

Navigation leadership

Sensor fusion

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Navigation simulation tools

Job description

EDGE, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, seeks a Principal Navigation Engineer to lead the development and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems in Abu Dhabi. You will own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor fusion, and verification across the lifecycle.

The role includes mentoring engineers, coordinating with GNC, Avionics, Software, RF, Simulation, and Flight Test teams, and delivering verification evidence. Strong English required.