Company: Matchtech
Location: Leeds
Job Description:
Senior UAS Flight Control Engineer (Permanent) – Yorkshire (Hybrid)
We’re hiring a hands-on Flight Control Engineer to develop and deploy novel flight-control algorithms for a flagship UAS programme, helping ensure the aircraft is stable, controllable, testable and ready for safe, repeatable operations.
Salary: £50,000-£90,000
Location: Yorkshire (Leeds)
Type: Permanent
What you’ll do
- Develop and evolve flight-control algorithms/control approaches for UAS platforms
- Take algorithms from simulation → ground test → flight test, owning verification/validation evidence
- Support flight dynamics modelling, control-law development, tuning and simulation work
- Configure, tune and integrate autopilot systems where appropriate
- Support Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) integration and sensor/actuator troubleshooting
- Contribute to SIL/HIL test strategies and tooling
- Support system identification, flight-test planning and flight-data analysis
- Work closely with avionics, aerospace design, software, operations and test teams
- Document configuration, test results, readiness status and validation outputs to a high standard
What we’re looking for (essential)
- Strong background in flight control / control systems / autonomy / robotics / aerospace controls
- Experience developing and testing control algorithms on real-world hardware
- Practical UAS/UAV/aircraft/robotics/autonomous platform exposure
- Solid understanding of flight dynamics, control theory, stability and tuning
- Experience with modelling, simulation, testing and V&V
- Ability to analyse flight-test data and diagnose control/stability issues
- Comfortable with IMUs, GNSS/INS, actuators, sensor-fusion and onboard systems
- Strong documentation discipline (validation evidence matters)
Nice to have
- Novel control laws for unconventional aircraft/UAS
- PX4, ArduPilot or similar autopilot ecosystems
- ROS / ROS2
- Python and/or C/C
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Posted: September 23rd, 2026