{"id":3882111,"url":"https://alion.io/job/edge-group-principal-engineer-navigation-systems-sme-2","title":"Principal Engineer - Navigation Systems (SME)","company":{"id":48610,"name":"EDGE Group","domain":"edgegroup.ae","url":"https://alion.io/company/edge-group","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.143,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":19,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"MATLAB","optional":false},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":false},{"name":"Simulink","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T18:30:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T10:59:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"ABOUT EDGE\nAt EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.\nHeadquartered 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.\nBased in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.\nTogether, we are shaping the future.\nABOUT THE ROLE\nThe Principal Navigation Engineer will provide technical leadership for the development, integration, analysis, and verification of advanced aerospace navigation systems. The role will own navigation requirements, architectures, algorithms, sensor fusion, performance analysis, and verification activities across the development lifecycle, including nominal, degraded, and GNSS-denied operating conditions.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nDevelop, integrate, tune, and verify navigation algorithms and sensor-fusion solutions.\nDefine navigation requirements, architectures, error budgets, and verification criteria.\nDevelop inertial mechanization, alignment, calibration, estimation, aiding, and fault-management functions.\nAnalyze navigation accuracy, integrity, continuity, availability, latency, initialization, and drift.\nPerform Monte Carlo, covariance, observability, sensitivity, uncertainty, and robustness analyses.\nSupport MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground, and flight-test activities.\nAnalyze test data and investigate navigation anomalies, sensor disagreement, timing errors, and estimator divergence.\nDevelop fault-detection, isolation, exclusion, reconfiguration, and recovery logic.\nProduce technical documentation, analysis reports, verification evidence, and lifecycle review inputs.\nCoordinate with GNC, Avionics, Software, RF, Simulation, Systems Engineering, Safety, Integration, and Flight Test teams.\nMentor engineers and provide technical leadership and peer review.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Control, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related discipline.\n10+ years of relevant experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or safety-critical engineering, including substantial navigation experience.\nHands-on experience with inertial, GNSS, aided, alternative, or resilient navigation systems.\nStrong knowledge of navigation algorithms, estimation filters, sensor-error modelling, calibration, alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection.\nProficiency in MATLAB and Simulink.\nExperience with navigation simulation, data analysis, and performance verification.\nExperience with MIL, SIL, PIL, HIL, laboratory, ground-test, and/or flight-test activities.\nDemonstrated ability to lead navigation functions, algorithms, subsystems, or technical work packages.\nProfessional proficiency in written and spoken English.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nMaster’s degree or PhD in Navigation, Guidance and Control, Estimation, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Systems, Signal Processing, or a related field.\nExperience with GNSS-denied, jammed, spoofed, or resilient navigation.\nAdvanced knowledge of Kalman filters, error-state EKF, UKF, observers, covariance management, innovation monitoring, and observability analysis.\nExperience with alternative aiding such as air data, radar/laser altimeters, Doppler velocity, terrain-referenced, vision-based, celestial, or cooperative navigation.\nExperience with Monte Carlo, covariance, sensitivity, uncertainty, robustness, and fault-injection analysis.\nExperience with six-degree-of-freedom simulation and recorded-data replay.\nExperience with navigation integrity, fault isolation, reconfiguration, and recovery.\nExperience supporting major aerospace lifecycle, qualification, and flight-readiness reviews.\nWHY CHOOSE EDGE\nLaunched in November 2019, the UAE's EDGE is one of the world's leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. It is dedicated to bringing breakthrough innovations, products, and services to market with greater speed and efficiency, to position the UAE as a leading global hub for future industries, and to creating clear paths within the sector for the next generation of highly skilled talent to thrive.\nAt EDGE, the real investment goes beyond compensation. Through our dedicated learning academy and digital learning platforms, employees have access to extensive opportunities to develop new skills, deepen their expertise, and advance their careers. Combined with the freedom to innovate, strong career support, and the opportunity to collaborate with world-class talent from across the globe, EDGE is a place where you can continue to grow, keep learning, and turn ambitious ideas into meaningful outcomes.\nWorking at EDGE also comes with a package that genuinely reflects how much we value our people. Salaries are highly competitive and tax-free and, depending on your role and seniority, benefits can include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance for you and your dependents, and education allowances for your children.\nCANDIDATE PRIVACY & EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT\nIf you feel your skills, experience and potential are a strong match for a role, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement. We are genuinely interested in what you can bring to EDGE.\nAny information you share as part of your EDGE candidate profile or job application will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy regulations.\nEDGE is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce. We believe every individual deserves to be treated with fairness, respect and dignity, and our employment decisions reflect that. 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