Senior Control, Modelling and Simulation Engineer

at  Callen Lenz

SENIOR CONTROL, MODELLING AND SIMULATION ENGINEER

Vacancy Reference: CLA-283
Position: Full-time
Location: Bristol, Wiltshire, UK
Salary Range: £50,000- £60,000
At Callen-Lenz, we are expanding the limits of what is possible. We specialise in crewed and uncrewed aircraft operations and technology, and having recently received investment into the business we are going through a period of rapid growth and development and are looking for key roles to assist with these changes. Callen-Lenz offers innovative and customer focused UAS solutions through our 4 key business strands: technical services, products, platforms and operational services. We are looking for individuals to help drive forward our expansion, placing you at the forefront of UAS development in the UK.

SKILLS:

Essential

• Strong experience in aerospace, automotive or other industrial sectors.
• Knowledge of UAVs and common flight control systems
• Experience with common flight simulation and visualisation packages

Desirable

• Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow

ABOUT THE ROLE

Working with our Bristol-based software team you will be developing Control Algorithms for UAS platforms and oversee multi-disciplinary modelling and simulation activities. This may include aircraft performance analyses, air vehicle design support, control algorithms tuning and model validation through analysis of experimental flight test data.
The team is made up of bright engineers that are passionate about aerospace. We are looking for a control, modelling and simulation engineer that can split their time effectively between mentoring junior engineers and delivering to projects.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understanding project requirements.
• Debugging, simulating, and analysing of aircraft performance and flight dynamics models.
• Implementing flight simulation and visualisation test environments.
• Demonstrating and presenting modelling work and simulation results, in meetings, conferences or through technical publications.
• Writing technical documentations (requirements analysis, technical specifications, model descriptions, test plans and test reports).
• Support team effort to establish HIL/SIL simulation results and develop framework to compare results to flight test results.
• Interface with software developers, design and testing activities to understand simulation needs and functional/fidelity requirements.
• Ensure on-time delivery of technical solutions that meet business needs and manage business partner satisfaction relative to deliverables.
• Perform other related duties as required