Senior GNC Engineer – Flight Controls & Autonomy (On-site)

Venn Group; England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension contribution

Occasional home working

Prototype development and live flight

Job summary

Venn Group is partnering with a defence technology company to recruit a Senior GNC Engineer for UAV flight controls. You will own guidance, navigation and control from modelling to field trials, tuning control laws, state estimators and embedded code for autopilots.

You will work on PX4/ArduPilot stacks with SITL/HITL simulations, and contribute to safety cases, flight data analysis and system identification. On-site work in the Berkshire area with salary £55,000–£70,000.

Qualifications

• Degree in aerospace, electronic, electrical, control or robotics engineering or a related discipline.
• At least five years’ experience in GNC, flight control or state estimation.
• Control design and tuning demonstrated on flying hardware.
• Strong understanding of Kalman filtering and multisensor fusion.
• Experience combining inertial, GNSS, visual or RF-derived data.
• Source-level experience modifying PX4, ArduPilot or a proprietary autopilot.
• Strong embedded C or C++ programming skills.
• MATLAB/Simulink or Python for modelling and analysis.
• SITL/HITL simulation and plant modelling.
• Flight-data analysis, system identification and control-loop diagnosis.
• Experience of degraded or denied-GNSS navigation, or strong knowledge of the underlying estimation techniques.
• Eligibility to obtain UK SC clearance; some programmes may require sole UK nationality.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and tune control laws and estimators for air and ground platforms.
• Develop solutions from requirements through to flight-proven embedded code.
• Modify and extend PX4, ArduPilot or proprietary autopilot stacks.
• Work on estimators, controllers, mixers, failsafes and hardware drivers.
• Develop navigation capability for GNSS-degraded and GNSS-denied environments.
• Deliver transfer alignment and INS integration between host platforms and deployed systems.
• Build plant models and SITL/HITL simulation environments.
• Conduct system identification using flight-test data.
• Plan and support flight trials, including instrumentation and control-loop tuning.
• Investigate anomalies and analyse flight logs.
• Produce evidence supporting qualification and safety cases.
• Contribute to wider flight-software and systems-engineering activity.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Kalman filtering

Multisensor fusion

Python

MATLAB/Simulink

Flight data analysis

GNC design

Autopilot modification

Education

Bachelors in aerospace/electrical/control/ robotics

Tools

PX4

ArduPilot

Embedded Systems

Job description

Venn Group is partnering with a defence technology company to recruit a Senior GNC Engineer for UAV flight controls. You will own guidance, navigation and control from modelling to field trials, tuning control laws, state estimators and embedded code for autopilots.

You will work on PX4/ArduPilot stacks with SITL/HITL simulations, and contribute to safety cases, flight data analysis and system identification. On-site work in the Berkshire area with salary £55,000–£70,000.