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Staff Principal Systems Engineer

Collins Aerospace | winnersh, United-Kingdom | Posted May 31, 2026

Position Overview

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...

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