Senior UAV GCS Architect

Edge Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 279,000 - 446,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and your de‑

Job summary

EDGE Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for UAV Ground Control Station (GCS) in Abu Dhabi. You will lead architecture, design, integration, and verification across GCS hardware, networking, RF, C2, telemetry, and rugged computing.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers, prepare system specifications and diagrams, and ensure robust security and performance for mission-critical UAV operations in a defense environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, Systems, Aerospace Engineering or related field.
• 7–12+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defence, UAV/UAS, robotics, or mission-critical systems.
• Strong experience in GCS hardware architecture, embedded systems, networking, RF communications, and system integration.
• Experience with Ethernet/IP, CAN, UART, SPI, and related interfaces.
• Experience integrating RF systems, UAV datalinks, SATCOM, modems, antennas, and communication systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead GCS system architecture, design, and integration.
• Define system requirements, interfaces, ICDs, network topology, and data flows.
• Integrate RF, SATCOM, LTE/5G, Wi-Fi, modems, and UAV datalinks.
• Lead integration of computing, networking, power, HMI, and ruggedized hardware.
• Ensure seamless ground-to-air, hardware-software, C2, telemetry, and video integration.
• Lead verification, validation, environmental, RF, and EMI/EMC testing.
• Conduct hardware bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Prepare system specifications, network diagrams, BOMs, test reports, and technical documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Skills

GCS architecture

Embedded systems

Networking

RF communications

System integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer/Systems/Aerospace Engineering

Master's degree in Aerospace/System Engineering

Tools

DOORS/Jama

Job description

EDGE Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for UAV Ground Control Station (GCS) in Abu Dhabi. You will lead architecture, design, integration, and verification across GCS hardware, networking, RF, C2, telemetry, and rugged computing.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers, prepare system specifications and diagrams, and ensure robust security and performance for mission-critical UAV operations in a defense environment.