Senior Navigation Engineer — Aerospace Sensor Fusion Lead

EDGE

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

EDGE in Abu Dhabi seeks a Principal Navigation Engineer to provide technical leadership across the development, integration, analysis, and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems. You will own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor fusion, and verification across the lifecycle, including GNSS-denied conditions.

The role requires leading navigation functions, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure robust performance and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a 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, integrate, tune, 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.