Senior Principal Technician Onboard Telemetry

AL TARIQ; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and dependi

Education allowances for your children

Job summary

EDGE seeks a highly skilled Specialist Onboard Telemetry to join our Engineering team in Abu Dhabi. You will design, develop, and integrate telemetry packs for precision-guided munitions and advanced weapon systems, supporting flight tests, data acquisition, and post-test analysis.

The role requires 10–12 years in telemetry/flight test within Defense or Space, plus strong knowledge of PCM encoding, Arcnet, and MATLAB-based analysis.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in Electronic/Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace or closely related discipline.
• 10–12 years of telemetry and flight test experience in defense/space.
• Knowledge of Telemetry PCM encoding, Arcnet and serial protocols.
• Signal conditioning circuit design, PCB design and layout, wiring/schematic interpretation.
• Telemetry and flight test instrumentation systems proficiency.
• Laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and electronic debugging.
• Familiarity with military and commercial standards for flight test systems.
• Experience with data acquisition, data reduction, and MATLAB-based analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain onboard telemetry packs for precision-guided munitions.
• Establish telemetry design data packs, documentation, and configuration records.
• Design and implement analog signal conditioning for telemetry instrumentation and data acquisition.
• Install, configure, and validate onboard telemetry equipment for flight test programs.
• Develop and execute acceptance, verification, and validation procedures for telemetry systems.
• Manage telemetry metadata for PCM, Arcnet, and onboard weapon communication ICDs.
• Support flight test activities, including telemetry data reception and real-time monitoring.
• Perform data reduction, processing, and analysis using MATLAB and other tools.
• Generate post-flight test reports and provide telemetry-driven recommendations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate telemetry with weapon and subsystems.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve electronic subsystem and production test failures.

Job description

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Specialist Onboard Telemetry to join our Engineering team. This role is responsible for the design, development, integration, and execution of onboard telemetry systems supporting flight test activities for precision-guided munitions (PGMs) and advanced weapon systems. The successful candidate will play a critical role in telemetry preparation, flight test execution, data acquisition, signal conditioning, metadata configuration, and post-test analysis. In addition, this position will provide technical support in troubleshooting and debugging electronic subsystems that fail production testing.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced electronics and telemetry engineer to work on cutting-edge aerospace and defense technologies in a highly collaborative engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain onboard telemetry packs (telpacks) for precision-guided munitions, ensuring compliance with customer and industry requirements.
• Establish and maintain telemetry design data packs, technical documentation, and configuration records.
• Design and implement analog signal conditioning circuits for telemetry instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
• Install, configure, and validate onboard telemetry equipment and instrumentation for flight test programs.
• Develop and execute acceptance, verification, and validation procedures for telemetry systems.
• Prepare, manage, and maintain telemetry metadata for PCM, Arcnet, and onboard weapon communication systems in accordance with Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Support flight test activities, including telemetry data reception, test configuration, and real-time monitoring.
• Perform data reduction, processing, and analysis using tools such as MATLAB and other engineering software.
• Generate post-flight test reports and provide technical recommendations based on telemetry data analysis.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to integrate telemetry systems with weapon, seeker, servo, and other onboard subsystems.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve electronic subsystem and production test failures through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable military, commercial, safety, and engineering standards while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Qualifications

Engineering Degree or Diploma in Electronic Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Mechatronics Engineering/Aerospace EngineeringOr a closely related discipline

Experience

• 10-12 years of experience in telemetry & flight test experience within Defense or Space. (Drones , Weapons , satellites, rockets etc)
• Working knowledge of Telemetry PCM encoding , Arcnet communication protocols & Serial communication protocols.
• Signal conditioning circuit design , PCB design and layout , Electrical wiring and schematic interpretation , Telemetry and flight test instrumentation systems
• Proficiency in laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and electronic debugging.
• Familiarity with military and commercial standards related to flight test systems.
• Knowledge of seeker, servo, or related weapon-system subsystems will be advantageous.
• Experience with data acquisition, data reduction, and MATLAB-based analysis.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and production support environments.
• Practical soldering and electronics assembly skills.

Why Choose EDGE?

Working at EDGE comes with a package that genuinely reflects how much we value our people. Salaries are highly competitive and tax-free and, depending on your role and seniority, benefits can include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance for you and your dependants, and education allowances for your children.

But the real investment goes further than compensation. Through our own learning academy and digital learning platform, there are extensive opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career. Add to that the freedom to innovate, strong career guidance, and the chance to work alongside world-class talent from across the globe, and EDGE becomes a place where you can keep growing, keep learning, and keep turning bold ideas into something real.

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