Senior Autonomous Flight Control Systems Engineer

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE is seeking a highly experienced Flight Control Engineer to lead the design and validation of guidance, control, and allocation algorithms for autonomous/aerospace systems based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role requires 10+ years in aerospace or safety-critical control systems, a Bachelor's (and preferably Masters/PhD) in related fields, and proven leadership with minimal supervision. English proficiency and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, Control, Robotics, 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 is preferred.
• Typically, 10+ years of relevant aerospace or comparable safety-critical control-system experience.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Demonstrated ability to lead significant Guidance & Control work packages with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Derive Guidance & Control 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 signal 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 command shaping, reference models, feedforward, feedback, trim, and disturbance-rejection functions.
• 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 appropriate gain, phase, delay, disk, multiloop, and robustness margins.
• Assess actuator activity, sensor-noise transmission, disturbance rejection, structural-mode interaction, and system 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

English proficiency

Guidance & Control

Flight Control

System Modeling

Robustness Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace

Master’s or PhD in Flight Control

Job description

EDGE is seeking a highly experienced Flight Control Engineer to lead the design and validation of guidance, control, and allocation algorithms for autonomous/aerospace systems based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role requires 10+ years in aerospace or safety-critical control systems, a Bachelor's (and preferably Masters/PhD) in related fields, and proven leadership with minimal supervision. English proficiency and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams are essential.