Staff Principal Systems Engineer

Position Overview

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is recruiting an experienced Unmanned Systems Modelling & Control Engineer to lead and mentor a growing team working on autonomy and unmanned systems across air, land and maritime domains. Based at Winnersh near Reading with flexible/hybrid working, you’ll take systems from first principles through to detailed requirements, testing and validation, using Model‑Based Systems Engineering and Agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modelling & control discipline for unmanned systems, acting as technical leader and mentor for a growing team.
• Turn customer needs into system requirements and architectures, using Model‑Based Systems Engineering to drive and verify design decisions.
• Develop high‑fidelity 6‑DOF models and flight‑critical control/autonomy algorithms (guidance, mission tasking, GNSS‑denied navigation, payload/sensor/comms models).
• Build and run integrated simulation...