ABOUT THE ROLE
The company is the regional leader in autonomous systems and services, dedicated to offering holistic solutions – from the development and production of unmanned systems to joint mission analysis and careful equipment acquisition. The company manufactures, operates and maintains next-generation autonomous solutions for air, land and sea – capable of performing in a diverse range of demanding environments. Leveraging advanced technologies to comply with the tactical demands of the future, the company aims to be a world leader in building the next generation of autonomous capabilities.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
Requirements & Architecture
- Derive Guidance & Control requirements from aircraft, mission, safety, operational, and flying-quality requirements.
- Define functional and performance requirements for control laws, guidance, autopilot, and control allocation.
- Develop control-law architectures, mode structures, command hierarchies, and signal interfaces.
- Define required state, sensor, navigation, actuator, propulsion, and configuration inputs and outputs.
Control-Law Design
- Design inner-loop stabilization and outer-loop command functions.
- Develop longitudinal, lateral-directional, and coupled-axis control laws.
- Develop gain schedules and scheduling-variable logic across the operating envelope.
- Develop command shaping, reference models, feedforward, feedback, trim, and disturbance-rejection functions.
- Develop envelope protection, command limiting, reconfiguration, and degraded-mode functions.
Guidance & Control Allocation
- Design guidance algorithms for applicable mission phases.
- Ensure guidance commands are dynamically feasible and compatible with vehicle and control limits.
- Develop control-allocation and effector-management algorithms.
Modeling & Analysis
- Develop trim, linear, control-oriented, uncertainty, and frequency-response models.
- Perform modal, eigenvalue, time-domain, frequency-domain, and nonlinear analyses.
- Establish appropriate gain, phase, delay, disk, multiloop, and robustness margins.
- Assess actuator activity, sensor-noise transmission, disturbance rejection, structural-mode interaction, and system nonlinearities.
Verification & Validation
- Define verification cases, acceptance criteria, coverage, and evidence.
- Conduct linear, nonlinear, Monte Carlo, worst-case, failure-case, and sensitivity analyses.
- Support SIL, PIL, HIL, pilot-in-the-loop, ground, and flight testing.
- Compare reference models with production-software implementation.
- Assess timing, numerical precision, execution order, initialization, and interface behavior.
Troubleshooting & Flight Test
- Investigate oscillations, instability, saturation, trajectory errors, mode-transition issues, and simulation/test discrepancies.
- Support ground and flight-test planning, including test conditions, maneuvers, safety limits, excitation design, and success criteria.
- Monitor flight-test behavior and correlate predictions with ground- and flight-test evidence.
Documentation & Reviews
- Produce control-law design descriptions, guidance reports, robustness assessments, verification reports, release notes, and limitation statements.
- Support AoA, SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, flight-readiness, qualification, FCA, PCA, MRR, and PRR activities.
- Maintain control-law build, release, and configuration records.
- Mentor engineers and conduct technical peer reviews.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, Control, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related discipline.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Flight Control, Guidance, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, or a related field is preferred.
- Typically, 10+ years of relevant aerospace or comparable safety-critical control-system experience.
- Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Demonstrated ability to lead significant Guidance & Control work packages with limited supervision.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree or PhD in Flight Control, Guidance, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, or a related field.
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.
