ABOUT THE ROLE
The Principal Navigation Engineer will provide technical leadership for the development, integration, analysis, and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems. The role will own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor fusion, performance analysis, and verification activities across the development lifecycle, including nominal, degraded, and GNSS-denied operating conditions.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop, integrate, tune, and verify navigation algorithms and sensor-fusion solutions.
- Define navigation requirements, architectures, error budgets, and verification criteria.
- Develop inertial mechanization, alignment, calibration, estimation, aiding, and fault-management functions.
- Analyze navigation accuracy, integrity, continuity, availability, latency, initialization, and drift.
- Perform Monte Carlo, covariance, observability, sensitivity, uncertainty, and robustness analyses.
- Support MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground, and flight-test activities.
- Analyze test data and investigate navigation anomalies, sensor disagreement, timing errors, and estimator divergence.
- Develop fault-detection, isolation, exclusion, reconfiguration, and recovery logic.
- Produce technical documentation, analysis reports, verification evidence, and lifecycle review inputs.
- Coordinate with GNC, Avionics, Software, RF, Simulation, Systems Engineering, Safety, Integration, and Flight Test teams.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership and peer review.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related discipline.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or safety-critical engineering, including substantial navigation experience.
- Hands-on experience with inertial, GNSS, 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.
- Experience with navigation simulation, data analysis, and performance verification.
- Experience with MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground-test, and/or flight-test activities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead navigation functions, algorithms, subsystems, or technical work packages.
- Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree or PhD in Navigation, Guidance and Control, Estimation, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Systems, Signal Processing, or a related field.
- Experience with GNSS-denied, jammed, spoofed, or resilient navigation.
- Advanced knowledge of Kalman filters, error-state EKF, UKF, observers, covariance management, innovation monitoring, and observability analysis.
- Experience with alternative aiding such as air data, radar/laser altimeters, Doppler velocity, terrain-referenced, vision-based, celestial, or cooperative navigation.
- Experience with Monte Carlo, covariance, sensitivity, uncertainty, robustness, and fault-injection analysis.
- Experience with six-degree-of-freedom simulation and recorded-data replay.
- Experience with navigation integrity, fault isolation, reconfiguration, and recovery.
- Experience supporting major aerospace lifecycle, qualification, and flight-readiness reviews.
WHY CHOOSE THE COMPANY
Launched in November 2019, the company is one of the world's leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. It is dedicated to bringing breakthrough innovations, products, and services to market with greater speed and efficiency, to position the UAE as a leading global hub for future industries, and to creating clear paths within the sector for the next generation of highly skilled talent to thrive.
At the company, the real investment goes beyond compensation. Through our dedicated learning academy and digital learning platforms, employees have access to extensive opportunities to develop new skills, deepen their expertise, and advance their careers. Combined with the freedom to innovate, strong career support, and the opportunity to collaborate with world-class talent from across the globe, the company is a place where you can continue to grow, keep learning, and turn ambitious ideas into meaningful outcomes.
Working at the company also comes with a package that genuinely reflects how much we value our people. Salaries are highly competitive and tax-free and, depending on your role and seniority, benefits can include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance for you and your dependents, and education allowances for your children.
