Senior Guidance & Control Algorithm Engineer

Cirrus Selection; West of England; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite restaurant

Onsite Medical Centre

Parking / Easy train access

Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop

Sports & Social Club

Job summary

Cirrus Selection is seeking an experienced Senior Algorithm Engineer with knowledge of Guidance & Control to join a science-led engineering and manufacturing business in the Bristol area. You will work on advanced G&C systems, real-time architectures, and sophisticated RF/IR sub-systems.

You will influence design and testing directions across programmes from concept to trials, collaborate across teams, and contribute to architecture, verification, and performance analyses.

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

• Senior Algorithm Engineer responsibilities include developing detailed Guidance & Control design and expanding to higher architectural levels, demonstrating rigorous system analysis and management of complexity.
• You will influence the current and future direction for design and testing of G&C systems, spanning specialist algorithms, real-time architecture, and complex equipment.
• Collaborate across departments and programmes to progress from early research and concept stages through to full-scale development and trials.

Skills

Guidance & Control

Real-time architecture

System analysis

Clear design requirements

Communication of complex ideas

Education

Degree in physics, mathematics or similar

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Cirrus Selection is seeking an experienced Senior Algorithm Engineer with knowledge of Guidance & Control to join a science-led engineering and manufacturing business in the Bristol area. You will work on advanced G&C systems, real-time architectures, and sophisticated RF/IR sub-systems.

You will influence design and testing directions across programmes from concept to trials, collaborate across teams, and contribute to architecture, verification, and performance analyses.