Principal Navigation Engineer

EDGE Group
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Technical peer review","Troubleshooting","Technical documentation","Analytical thinking"]

Develop navigation and guidance/control capabilities for autonomous air, land, and sea systems by translating flight, mission, safety, and operating requirements into functional and performance control architectures. Design and tune control laws and guidance algorithms, build control-oriented and uncertainty models, and perform extensive verification/validation (including SIL/PIL/HIL and analyses). Lead troubleshooting and flight-test support, produce technical documentation, and mentor engineers through design reviews and qualification activities.

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EDGE Group
EDGE Group
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Principal Navigation Engineer

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Job Summary

Develop navigation and guidance/control capabilities for autonomous air, land, and sea systems by translating flight, mission, safety, and operating requirements into functional and performance control architectures. Design and tune control laws and guidance algorithms, build control-oriented and uncertainty models, and perform extensive verification/validation (including SIL/PIL/HIL and analyses). Lead troubleshooting and flight-test support, produce technical documentation, and mentor engineers through design reviews and qualification activities.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Derive guidance and control requirements from aircraft, mission, safety, operational, and flying-quality requirements.
  • •Develop control-law architectures, mode structures, command hierarchies, and required interface inputs/outputs.
  • •Design inner-loop/outer-loop control laws and guidance algorithms across mission phases, including envelope protection and degraded-mode functions.
  • •Build and validate models (trim, linear, uncertainty, frequency-response), perform analyses (modal, eigenvalue, time/frequency-domain, nonlinear), and assess robustness margins.
  • •Define verification cases and acceptance criteria, support SIL/PIL/HIL and ground/flight testing, troubleshoot issues, and produce design and review documentation while mentoring engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Family VisasAnnual FlightHealth InsuranceEducation Allowances

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, Control, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • •10+ years of relevant aerospace or comparable safety-critical control-system experience.
  • •Master’s degree or PhD in Flight Control, Guidance, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, or related field is preferred.
  • •Define functional/performance requirements for control laws, guidance, autopilot, and control allocation.
  • •Professional proficiency in written and spoken English; demonstrated ability to lead significant guidance & control work packages with limited supervision.
Experience:10+ yearsAerospaceAutonomous systemsSafety-critical control systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipTechnical peer reviewTroubleshootingTechnical documentationAnalytical thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SILPILHILMonte CarloLinear analysisNonlinear analysis

Company Brief

EDGE Group
EDGE Group PJSC is an Abu Dhabi–based advanced technology and defence conglomerate (launched Nov 2019) developing autonomous systems, electronic warfare, precision weapons, cyber and naval/aerospace solutions for military and dual-use markets.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Government & Public Sector
Funding: Government Funded
Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2019
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