Principal Systems Engineer - Guidance & Control

Principal Systems Engineer - Guidance & Control

Date: 3 Sept 2026

Company: EDGE Group PJSC

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Together, we are shaping the future.

ADASI 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. ADASI 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, ADASI aims to be a world leader in building the next generation of autonomous capabilities.

• 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.

• 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, feed forward, feedback, trim, and disturbance-rejection functions.
• Develop envelope protection, command limiting, reconfiguration, and degraded-mode functions.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…