Senior Guidance & Control Systems Engineer

AL TARIQ; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE in Abu Dhabi is seeking a senior Guidance & Control engineer to derive requirements, design control laws, and develop robust architectures for autonomous aerospace systems. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, define interfaces, and ensure mission feasibility across flight phases.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, verification planning, and collaboration with testing teams to validate models and flight-ready software.

Qualifications

• 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 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 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 and ensure dynamic feasibility with vehicle limits.
• Develop control-allocation and effector-management algorithms.

Skills

Guidance & Control

English proficiency

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace or related field

Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Job description

EDGE in Abu Dhabi is seeking a senior Guidance & Control engineer to derive requirements, design control laws, and develop robust architectures for autonomous aerospace systems. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, define interfaces, and ensure mission feasibility across flight phases.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, verification planning, and collaboration with testing teams to validate models and flight-ready software.