Senior UAS Control Systems Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead hands-on development of flight-control algorithms for a new unmanned aircraft platform within a start-up setting. You will take control laws from simulation through ground and flight testing, collaborating across flight dynamics, autopilot integration, and data analysis. You’ll shape the verification workflow and document validation evidence to support robust, real-world performance. This is a growth-focused position with impact on safety, reliability, and the platform’s eventual flight readiness.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension
• Company Share Scheme

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune flight-control algorithms for UAS platforms
• Verify and validate control performance from simulation to ground testing and flight testing
• Support flight dynamics modelling, control-law development, simulation and tuning
• Configure, integrate, and tune autopilot systems where appropriate
• Support system identification, flight-test planning, and flight-data analysis
• Contribute to SIL/HIL test approaches and troubleshooting (stability, sensor fusion, actuators)
• Document control approaches, test results, configuration changes, and validation evidence

Key requirements

• Strong experience in flight control / control systems / autonomy / robotics / aerospace controls
• Proven experience developing and testing control algorithms for real-world systems
• Practical experience with UAS/UAVs, aircraft, robotics, or autonomous platforms
• Strong understanding of flight dynamics, control theory, stability and tuning
• Experience with modelling, simulation, testing and verification/validation
• Ability to analyse flight-test data and diagnose control issues
• Comfortable working with autopilots, IMUs, GNSS/INS, actuators and onboard systems
• Strong documentation and validation discipline

• problem solving
• attention to detail
• collaboration
• flight-control algorithms
• autopilot systems
• IMUs, GNSS/INS

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