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Advanced Navigation is a leader in AI robotics and navigation technologies for land, air, sea, and space applications. The company supplies guidance and navigation systems to major aerospace and defense contractors including Airbus, Boeing, NASA, and others.
This Senior DSP & Controls Engineer role focuses on developing and advancing control and signal processing solutions for Fibre Optic Gyroscopes (FOG). Working within a multidisciplinary engineering team, you will improve sensor performance, robustness, and reliability through modelling, algorithm development, and experimental validation. The position emphasizes optimizing closed-loop control and digital signal processing to enhance FOG performance, stability, and dynamic response, while translating system requirements into algorithm designs and specifications for FPGA implementation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and optimize closed-loop control and digital signal processing algorithms, including signal acquisition and timing, to meet FOG performance requirements
- Develop models and analysis methods to understand system behavior and guide design decisions
- Investigate performance limitations and deliver improvements through structured analysis and experimental validation
- Collaborate with photonics, electronics, FPGA, and firmware engineers to translate algorithm concepts into practical, real-time solutions
- Define performance requirements and verification approaches, ensuring solutions meet system and product needs
- Support system integration, characterization, and troubleshooting throughout development and production
- Provide technical ownership across the development lifecycle, from concept and feasibility studies through implementation, verification, and production support
- Take ownership of assigned technical work packages, including planning, risk management, documentation, and delivery
This is an individual contributor role with significant technical scope and ownership, requiring strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills.
REQUIREMENTS:
Essential:
- Degree in control engineering, electrical or electronic engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or related discipline
- Demonstrated experience developing control and digital signal processing solutions for real-time systems
- Strong capability in mathematical modelling, simulation, and experimental data analysis
- Practical experience validating algorithms on hardware and resolving system-level performance issues
- Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or equivalent engineering tools
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable:
- Experience with Fibre Optic Gyroscopes, inertial sensors, optical instrumentation, or precision measurement systems
- Familiarity with FPGA or embedded implementations of control and signal processing algorithms
- Experience supporting product development from prototype through verification and production
