Senior Guidance & Control Systems 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

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.