Navigation Engineer (Algorithms)

Matchtech; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus scheme

Employer-supported pension scheme

Enhanced parental, paternity, neonatal

fertility-related leave provisions

Subsidised meals and free on-site car"

Opportunities to work on strategically

Job summary

Matchtech seeks a Senior Navigation Engineer with expertise in guidance, control and navigation for defence aerospace programmes. You will contribute to specification, design, verification and flight trials from research through to full-scale development.

Based on an on-site Bristol role, you will work across departments, model systems in MATLAB/Simulink and communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders while influencing engineering decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in aerospace guidance, control and navigation specification, analysis, algorithm design and implementation.
• Strong understanding of navigation systems, sensors, algorithms, real-time architecture and systems verification.
• Ability to cross-verify complex systems and system models against underlying theory.
• Experience using MATLAB and Simulink for modelling, simulation and engineering analysis.
• Ability to communicate complex or conceptually difficult ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to define engineering challenges and establish unambiguous requirements.
• Ability to provide technical influence where wider programme or operational factors affect engineering decisions.
• Interest in control applications, preferably applied flight control, would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Developing and analysing sophisticated guidance, control and navigation algorithms throughout the systems full lifecycle
• Contributing to the specification, design, implementation and verification of real-time guidance and control architectures
• Working with complex systems and equipment, including RF and infrared seekers, inertial sensors, actuators, propulsion systems and launch platform interfaces
• Influencing the future direction of guidance and control design, testing and technical strategy
• Defining clear engineering requirements and objectives from complex technical challenges
• Managing system complexity by identifying the key technical drivers within interconnected engineering environments
• Diagnosing system abnormalities through physical investigation, computer modelling and simulation using MATLAB and Simulink
• Collaborating across departments, directorates and national boundaries from early research and concept development through to full-scale development and guided flight trials

Skills

Aerospace guidance

Control systems

Real-time architecture

MATLAB/Simulink

System verification

Stakeholder communication

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and analysing sophisticated guidance, control and navigation algorithms throughout the systems full lifecycle


• Contributing to the specification, design, implementation and verification of real-time guidance and control architectures


• Working with complex systems and equipment, including RF and infrared seekers, inertial sensors, actuators, propulsion systems and launch platform interfaces


• Influencing the future direction of guidance and control design, testing and technical strategy


• Defining clear engineering requirements and objectives from complex technical challenges


• Managing system complexity by identifying the key technical drivers within interconnected engineering environments


• Diagnosing system abnormalities through physical investigation, computer modelling and simulation using MATLAB and Simulink


• Collaborating across departments, directorates and national boundaries from early research and concept development through to full-scale development and guided flight trials

Job Requirements

• Extensive experience in aerospace guidance, control and navigation specification, analysis, algorithm design and implementation


• Strong understanding of navigation systems, sensors, algorithms, real-time architecture and systems verification


• Ability to cross-verify complex systems and system models against underlying theory


• Experience using MATLAB and Simulink for modelling, simulation and engineering analysis


• Ability to communicate complex or conceptually difficult ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders


• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to define engineering challenges and establish unambiguous requirements


• Ability to provide technical influence where wider programme or operational factors affect engineering decisions


• Interest in control applications, preferably applied flight control, would be advantageous

Additional Information

This role requires attendance on site in Bristol five days per week due to workload classification

Flexible working arrangements may be considered where operational requirements allow

Benefits

• Company bonus scheme


• Employer-supported pension scheme


• Enhanced parental, paternity, neonatal and fertility-related leave provisions


• Subsidised meals and free on-site car parking


• Opportunities to work on strategically important defence and security programmes

If you are a Senior Navigation Engineer or Senior Algorithm Engineer with expertise in guidance, control, navigation, sensors and systems engineering, this role offers an opportunity to contribute to complex aerospace programmes from research through to flight trials.