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Senior GNC Engineer - Navigation

On-site in Cambridge·Added 7 months ago (last checked 1 Oct)

Overview

Job details

  • Permanent contract

    Per the ad.

Benefits

  • Cycle to work scheme

    Commuter benefits named in the ad.

Requirements

  • Work on-site in Cambridge

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Senior-level role.

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • GNC experience in missiles, rockets or high-speed aircraft, including evidence of technical ownership for a GNC workstream
  • Deep understanding of inertial navigation, observability, sensor error modelling, alignment and calibration
  • Experience developing navigation solutions for degraded, spoofed or GNSS-denied environments
  • Experience taking GNC work from concept into integration and test incorporating design assurance processes
  • Strong MATLAB/Simulink skills and working knowledge of Python, C/C++, or similar

Nice to have

  • Experience in fast-paced R&D or startup environments, with rapid prototype iteration times

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Competitive compensation and stock options
  • Private Medical & Dental
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Lunchtime catering on site

The role

We are looking for a Senior GNC Engineer to own navigation for a new interceptor from early concept through sensor integration, real-time implementation, and flight test. You will define the navigation architecture and develop robust solutions for contested environments. Your work will influence systems design and interceptor performance across demanding flight regimes.

What you'll do

  • Shape the interceptor concept through navigation trade studies influencing system architecture, sensor selection and overall interceptor performance
  • Own navigation architecture and algorithm development from concept through flight test
  • Characterize sensor error models and implement calibration, alignment and fault‑detection logic
  • Develop and tune state-estimation and sensor-fusion algorithms for guidance and control in high-dynamic flight
  • Plan and support navigation simulation campaigns, ground tests, and flight trials

Description

Job Location: Can be considered for Cambridge OR Munich

About Cambridge Aerospace

Industry
Aerospace and Defence

In their own words

About the company & team

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence. 

We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery. 

We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission. 

If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us. 

Additional information

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

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