Senior Algorithm Engineer

As a Senior Algorithm Specialist, you will operate across both detailed Guidance & Control algorithm development and higher-level system architecture, applying rigorous analysis to complex, safety-critical engineering systems.

You will help shape the design, development, and verification of advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control solutions, covering specialist algorithms, real-time architectures, and integration with complex hardware such as RF and IR seekers, inertial sensors, actuators, and propulsion systems.

The role also involves interfacing with a range of launch platforms, both air and surface based.

You will work collaboratively across multidisciplinary engineering teams and, where relevant, across organisational and national boundaries. The role offers exposure to multiple programmes at different stages of the lifecycle, from early concept and research activities through detailed development, integration, and guided flight trials.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong theoretical knowledge and extensive practical experience in aerospace guidance, navigation and control, including specification, analysis, algorithm design and implementation
• Experience with real-time system architectures, verification, and validation of complex control systems
• Ability to clearly define and bound engineering problems, translating them into unambiguous technical requirements and objectives
• Proven capability to manage complexity by identifying key drivers within large, highly interconnected systems
• Skilled in cross-verifying system behaviour and models against underlying theory
• Ability to communicate complex or abstract technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders
• Experience diagnosing system behaviour and anomalies through both physical understanding and modelling & simulation (e.g. MATLAB / Simulink)
• Confidence to influence technical direction in environments with competing commercial, programme, or schedule pressures