Senior Algorithm Engineer
// Role Summary
Join a strategic Senior Algorithm Engineer role within the GCN team, influencing the future of sophisticated missile Guidance & Control systems without line management duties. This is a hands-on technical opportunity with significant impact.
// Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop advanced Guidance, Control, and Navigation (GCN) algorithms for missile systems.
- Influence strategic direction for GCN system design, testing, and architecture.
- Collaborate across departmental and national boundaries on multi-programme lifecycles.
- Require theoretical knowledge and extensive experience in aerospace GCN.
- Undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.
// Role Specification
The Senior Algorithm Engineer role in GCN (Guidance, Control, and Navigation) is a highly visible, strategic position, working with a highly capable technical team. This role presents a rare opportunity for hands-on technical involvement, research and strategy steering, without line management duties.
The Opportunity:
As a Senior Algorithm Specialist, you will develop your expertise both at a detailed Guidance & Control design level, and up through the higher architectural levels, where you can demonstrate a capability for rigorous system analysis and management of complexity. You will influence the current and future direction for design and testing of sophisticated missile Guidance & Control (G&C) systems, spanning specialist algorithms, real-time architecture, and complex equipment including RF & IR seekers, inertial sensors, actuators, propulsion (turbojets, ramjets and thrust-vectored rockets), and interfaces to surface and air launch platforms.
You will have the opportunity to collaborate widely across departmental, directorate and national boundaries, and to be involved across multiple programmes at various points in their respective lifecycles, from the early research and concept stages through to full-scale development and guided flight trials.
What we're looking for from you:
- Theoretical knowledge and extensive experience of aerospace guidance, control and navigation specification, analysis, algorithm design & implementation, real time architecture and verification.
- Ability to bound the scope of an engineering problem and to express the design challenge in terms of clear unambiguous design requirements/objectives.
- Managing complexity by identifying major drivers in a large, inter-connected engineering system.
- Able to cross-verify complex systems and system models against underlying theory.
- Communicating complex or conceptually difficult ideas clearly.
- Diagnosing abnormalities in an engineering system both physically and virtually.
What we can offer you:
- Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave - enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more