Sensor Fusion Software Engineering Lead in Bedford

Introduction
Saab in UK is growing rapidly, with over 500 colleagues across eight sites. We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.

What You Will Be Part Of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.
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The Role:
This role is part of Saab BlueBear in Bedfordshire.

You will be required to support a mixture of R&D and product development activities and will be keen to get involved in all development areas, and have a good track history / proven track record in both problem solving and quality software development.

Your role as a Sensor Fusion Lead will involve architecting, designing, implementing and testing embedded applications primarily focused around sensor suite integration and fusion. You may also lead a small team of other engineers. Tasks will generally involve architecting software systems and features that facilitate our state of the art methods for navigation in a variety of environments using our in-house fleet of UAVs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Primarily, your role will be to maintain, architect and develop our current sensor fusion capabilities and add new features in a structured and maintainable manner under direction of product owner (Head of Digital Systems).
• Research, Architect, Design and Test Sensor Fusion algorithms using Mathworks products.
• Technically lead the software development for Sensor Fusion activities to deliver new features and capabilities to our Autonomy and UAV systems.
• Ensure the Sensor Fusion software considers and implements redundancy, real-time, safety/critical and security objectives.
• Proactively engage with other engineers, teams and leadership to ensure needs are understood and met.
• Gain system wide knowledge and become a subject matter expert in the Sensor Fusion field.
• Ensure Sensor Fusion knowledge