Principal Engineer – Navigation Systems

About the role

The Principal Engineer – Navigation Systems will lead the technical development of advanced aerospace navigation solutions at EDGE in Abu Dhabi. You will own the full lifecycle of navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms and verification, ensuring performance in nominal, degraded and GNSS‑denied conditions.

Key responsibilities

• Design, integrate, tune and verify navigation algorithms and sensor‑fusion solutions for aerospace platforms.
• Define navigation requirements, system architectures, error budgets and verification criteria.
• Develop inertial mechanization, alignment, calibration, estimation, aiding and fault‑management functions.
• Perform performance analyses including accuracy, integrity, continuity, latency, initialization and drift.
• Conduct Monte Carlo, covariance, observability, sensitivity, uncertainty and robustness analyses.
• Support MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground and flight‑test activities and analyse test data.
• Mentor junior engineers, provide technical leadership and conduct peer reviews.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace, defence, robotics or safety‑critical systems with substantial navigation expertise.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex verification programmes.

Required skills

• Navigation algorithm development
• Sensor‑fusion techniques
• Inertial navigation mechanization and calibration
• Monte Carlo and covariance analysis
• Observability, sensitivity and robustness assessment
• MIL, SIL, PIL and HIL testing
• Flight‑test data analysis and fault‑detection logic