Principal Engineer - Navigation Systems (SME)

EDGE Group
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Peer review","English proficiency","Written documentation"]

Provide technical leadership for the development, integration, analysis, and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems. Own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor-fusion approaches, performance analysis, and verification across nominal, degraded, and GNSS-denied conditions. Execute algorithm development, estimation and fault-management logic, rigorous integrity and accuracy analyses, and support MIL/SIL/PIL/HIL plus lab, ground, and flight-test activities. Mentor engineers and coordinate across GNC, avionics, RF, simulation, systems engineering, safety, and flight-test teams.

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Principal Engineer - Navigation Systems (SME)

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Job Summary

Provide technical leadership for the development, integration, analysis, and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems. Own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor-fusion approaches, performance analysis, and verification across nominal, degraded, and GNSS-denied conditions. Execute algorithm development, estimation and fault-management logic, rigorous integrity and accuracy analyses, and support MIL/SIL/PIL/HIL plus lab, ground, and flight-test activities. Mentor engineers and coordinate across GNC, avionics, RF, simulation, systems engineering, safety, and flight-test teams.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop, integrate, tune, and verify navigation algorithms and sensor-fusion solutions.
  • •Define navigation requirements, architectures, error budgets, and verification criteria across the development lifecycle.
  • •Develop inertial mechanization, alignment, calibration, estimation, aiding, and fault-management functions.
  • •Analyze navigation accuracy, integrity, continuity, availability, latency, initialization, and drift, including Monte Carlo/covariance/observability and robustness analyses.
  • •Support MIL/SIL/PIL/HIL and laboratory, ground, and flight-test activities; analyze test data to diagnose navigation anomalies and produce verification documentation and evidence.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceFamily VisasAnnual FlightEducation Allowances

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
  • •10+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or safety-critical engineering with substantial navigation experience.
  • •Hands-on experience with inertial and GNSS, including aided, alternative, or resilient navigation systems.
  • •Strong knowledge of navigation algorithms, estimation filters, sensor-error modelling, calibration/alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection.
  • •Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink, plus experience with navigation simulation, data analysis, and MIL/SIL/PIL/HIL or flight-test activities.
Experience:10+ yearsAerospaceDefenceRoboticsAutonomous systemsSafety-critical engineering
Education:
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringPeer reviewEnglish proficiencyWritten documentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MATLABSimulinkKalman filtersEKFUKFMonte CarloSensor-fusionGNSSMILSILPILHILInertial mechanizationFault detectionFault isolationFault reconfigurationFault recovery

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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