Senior Algorithm Engineer

Cirrus Selection; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant

Onsite Medical Centre

Parking / Easy Access to train station

Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop

Sports & Social Club

Job summary

Cirrus Selection in Bristol seeks an experienced Senior Algorithm Engineer to drive the design and testing of sophisticated guidance, control and navigation algorithms. You will contribute from detailed design through to real-time architecture, RF/IR subsystems, inertial sensors, and actuators.

You will collaborate across departmental and national programmes throughout lifecycles from research to trials, with a strong emphasis on rigorous analysis, verification, and clear design requirements.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in a physics, mathematics, or similar subject.
• Theoretical knowledge and extensive experience of aerospace guidance, control and navigation specification, analysis, algorithm design & implementation, real time architecture and verification.
• Ability to bound the scope of an engineering problem and to communicate the design challenge in terms of clear unambiguous design requirements/goals.
• Ability to manage complexity by identifying major drivers in a large, inter-connected engineering system.
• Ability to cross-verify complex systems and system models against underlying theory.
• Ability to connect and communicate complex or conceptually difficult ideas clearly and elegantly.
• Ability to diagnose abnormalities in an engineering system both physically and virtually through computer modelling and simulation (MATLAB & Simulink).
• Influencing technically when there are other factors driving teams.
• A particular interest in applications with control experience, preferably applied flight control, but this is not essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop Guidance & Control algorithms and high‑level system architecture.
• Lead design verification and testing of G&C systems across projects.
• Collaborate across departments and programmes from research to trials.
• Communicate design requirements and engineering challenges clearly.

Skills

Aerospace guidance & control

System analysis

Communicate design requirements

Complex systems understanding

Influencing teams

Education

Physics or Mathematics degree

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Location: Bristol

Salary: Up to £65,000 P/A + benefits (Including excellent Bonus and Pension)

Hours: 37 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Algorithm Engineer with knowledge of Guidance & Control Algorithms to join an ambitious, highly regarded, scientific engineering / manufacturing business that are in a position of sustained growth.

As a Senior Algorithm Engineer, you will develop your expertise both at a detailed Guidance & Control design level, and up through the higher architectural levels, where you can demonstrate a capability for rigorous system analysis and management of complexity.

You will influence the current and future direction for design and testing of sophisticated Guidance & Control (G&C) systems, spanning specialist algorithms, real-time architecture, and complex equipment including RF & IR sub-systems, inertial sensors, and actuators, amongst others.

You will have the opportunity to collaborate widely across departmental, directorate and national boundaries, and to be involved across multiple programmes at various points in their respective lifecycles, from the early research and concept stages through to full-scale development and trials.

Benefits of working here:

• State of the art technology & innovation
• External learning and development encouraged.
• Light and airy university type campus.
• Friendly environment!
  • Restaurant
  • On site Medical Centre
  • Parking / Easy Access to train station
  • Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop
  • Sports & Social Club and More…

Skills Required

• Degree qualified in a physics, mathematics, or similar subject
• Theoretical knowledge and extensive experience of aerospace guidance, control and navigation specification, analysis, algorithm design & implementation, real time architecture and verification
• Ability to bound the scope of an engineering problem and to communicatethe design challenge in terms of clear unambiguous design requirements/goals
• Ability to manage complexity by identifying major drivers in a large, inter-connected engineering system
• Ability to cross-verify complex systems and system models against underlying theory
• Ability to connect and communicate complex or conceptually difficult ideas clearly and elegantly
• Ability to diagnose abnormalities in an engineering system both physically and virtually through computer modelling and simulation (MATLAB & Simulink)
• Influencing technically when there are other factors driving teams
• A particular interest in applications with control experience, preferably applied flight control, bit this is not essential

You will need to be either a full UK citizen or dual national with British citizenship, as you will need to secure UK security clearance, potentially to DV level in the future.