Guidance, Control and Navigation Engineer - Graduate Programme 2027
// Role Summary
Embark on an exciting career as a Graduate Guidance, Control, and Navigation (GCN) Engineer, contributing to cutting-edge missile and weapon systems from concept to service.
// Key Responsibilities
- Design algorithms at the core of complex MBDA missile and weapon systems.
- Involved in all product life cycle phases, from concept to service.
- Develop skills in Guidance, Control, Navigation, and Command & Control.
- Utilise tools like MATLAB/SIMULINK daily for coding and modelling.
- Benefit from a 2-year programme with annual reviews and excellent progression.
// Role Specification
Guidance, Control and Navigation Engineer - Graduate Programme 2027
The algorithms we design in Guidance, Control and Navigation (GCN) lie at the heart of all of the highly complex MBDA missile and weapon systems. We're involved in every phase of the product's life cycle, from concept through to service.
This role is scheduled to close for applications at midnight on Monday 2nd November 2026 but may close earlier depending on application volumes.
What we can offer you:
- 2 year Programme: Starting September 2027
- Annual Salary Review
- Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Excellent career progression and development opportunities
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
In this role, you'll build your skills across our four specialist areas:
- Guidance - figuring out a suitable trajectory, providing an effective route to target interception and improving the probability of defeating a target
- Control - designing and tuning autopilot algorithms, for various control surfaces, to maintain stable flight dynamics and achieve the guidance demands
- Navigation - estimating the current missile state (position, velocity and altitude/orientation) using measurements from a range of on-board sensors
- Command and Control - designing weapon-system level algorithms to track and evaluate incoming threats, plan engagements, and provide additional mission context to the operator
This is a great environment and opportunity to learn, broadening your technical knowledge of the design and function of a complex weapon system through visibility of a wide range of work; from researching and developing futuristic technologies through to being on the design team for current high-profile projects.
Join a supportive and experienced team who will encourage you to develop your skills in coding and modelling, mathematics, flight dynamics and control theory as well as utilising tools such as MATLAB/SIMULINK daily.
You'll experience a variety of activities in this role, which could include: Integrated navigation, su