Senior Principal Guidance & Flight Control Engineer

AL TARIQ; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 400,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and depend

Education allowances for your children

Job summary

AL TARIQ is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer - Guidance & Control to lead the development and implementation of advanced flight control software for next-generation smart weapon systems. The role spans from concept to flight testing and production support.

The ideal candidate has 10–15 years of experience in smart weapons or defence, with strong C/C++, MATLAB, and Simulink skills, and a track record in DO-178/MIL-STD compliant software development.

Qualifications

• <10-15 years in smart weapons, guided munitions, aerospace or defence industries.
• “Guidance systems” and “Flight control systems” experience with Kalman filtering and modelling/simulation.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of Guidance & Control algorithms for smart weapon systems.
• Design and optimise autopilot and mission control software to meet performance requirements.
• Develop and maintain LAR and MPS algorithms.
• Own 6-DOF simulation models and support HILS activities.
• Validate aerodynamic models using flight test data.
• Translate system requirements into software solutions.
• Design software architectures and code in C, C++, MATLAB, and Simulink.
• Perform software verification/validation to meet programme requirements.
• Ensure compliance with DO-178 and MIL-STD standards.
• Conduct flight, lab and ground testing with data analysis and reporting.
• Manage software configuration, traceability and change control.
• Support production and fault investigations with engineering teams.

Skills

Guidance systems

Flight control systems

Kalman filtering

Modelling & simulation

C programming

C++ programming

MATLAB & Simulink

Software verification & validation

Aerospace standards knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software/Electrical/Mechanical/CS or equivalent

Master's Degree preferred

Tools

C

C++

MATLAB

Simulink

HILS environments

Aerodynamic modelling

Job description

AL TARIQ is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer - Guidance & Control to lead the development and implementation of advanced flight control software for next-generation smart weapon systems. The role spans from concept to flight testing and production support.

The ideal candidate has 10–15 years of experience in smart weapons or defence, with strong C/C++, MATLAB, and Simulink skills, and a track record in DO-178/MIL-STD compliant software development.