Principal Engineer - Guidance & Control

About EDGE and ADASI

About the role

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of guidance algorithms, control laws, autopilot functions, and control-allocation systems.
• Perform flight-dynamics modeling, stability analysis, robustness assessment, and nonlinear simulations.
• Develop and validate control solutions using MATLAB/Simulink and relevant engineering tools.
• Conduct verification and validation through simulation, SIL/PIL/HIL, ground testing, and flight testing.
• Investigate control-system anomalies, performance issues, and simulation-to-test discrepancies.
• Ensure requirements traceability, technical documentation, and compliance with applicable safety and airworthiness requirements.
• Lead technical work packages, conduct engineering reviews, and mentor other engineers.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, Control Engineering, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant aerospace or safety-critical control-system engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in control-law design, guidance systems, autopilot functions, or control allocation.
• Solid understanding of flight dynamics, control theory, stability, robustness, and nonlinear simulation.
• Practical experience with MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent engineering tools.
• Experience in control-system verification, simulation, and testing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering activities independently.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Guidance, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Flight Control, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience with aircraft, UAVs, missiles, spacecraft, or other dynamic aerospace platforms.
• Knowledge of advanced control techniques, gain scheduling, uncertainty analysis, and guidance algorithms.
• Experience with Python, C/C++, Stateflow, and embedded real-time systems.
• Exposure to SIL/PIL/HIL, ground testing, flight testing, and simulation-to-test correlation.
• Familiarity with aerospace safety, airworthiness, software assurance, and configuration-management processes.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting technical design reviews.

Language

• English proficiency is required for roles at EDGE unless otherwise stated.

Benefits and development

• Employees have access to a learning academy, digital learning platforms, career support, and opportunities to collaborate with global colleagues.
• Salaries are described as competitive and tax-free; benefits may include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance, and education allowances, depending on role and seniority.