Senior GNC Engineer

Senior GNC Engineer - UAV / Flight Controls Location: near BerkshireSalary: £55,000-£70,000 depending on experienceWorking pattern: Full-time, predominantly on-siteClearance: Candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance SummaryVenn Group is working exclusively with an defence technology company to recruit a Senior Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer. You will join its autonomy and software team, taking ownership of guidance, navigation and control across a varied portfolio of operational platforms. This is a hands-on position covering control-law development, state estimation, autopilot modification, simulation and flight testing. You will work from initial modelling and embedded implementation through to field trials and analysis of real flight data. Key responsibilities Design, implement and tune control laws and estimators for air and ground platforms Develop solutions from requirements through to flight-proven embedded code Modify and extend PX4, ArduPilot or proprietary autopilot stacks Work on estimators, controllers, mixers, failsafes and hardware drivers Develop navigation capability for GNSS-degraded and GNSS-denied environments Deliver transfer alignment and INS integration between host platforms and deployed systems Build plant models and SITL/HITL simulation environments Conduct system identification using flight-test data Plan and support flight trials, including instrumentation and control-loop tuning Investigate anomalies and ..... full job details .....