Overview
Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world‑leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 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.
The Role
This role is part of Saab BlueBear in Bedfordshire. You will support a mixture of R&D and product development activities and be keen to get involved in all development areas, demonstrating a proven track record in problem solving and quality software development. As the Sensor Fusion Lead, you will architect, design, implement and test embedded applications primarily focused on 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
* Own, maintain, architect and develop our current sensor fusion capabilities and algorithms, adding new features in a structured and maintainable manner under direction of product owner.
* Research, design, architect and test sensor fusion algorithms using MATLAB or other tooling.
* Communicate designs to software development engineers for sensor fusion activities to deliver new features and capabilities to our Autonomy and UAV systems.
* Ensure the sensor fusion design incorporates redundancy, real‑time, safety‑critical and security objectives.
* Proactively engage with other engineers and teams to ensure needs are understood and met.
* Gain system‑wide knowledge and become a subject‑matter expert in the sensor fusion field.
* Transfer sensor fusion knowledge through written and other methods to the rest of the team.
* Contribute technically to Blue Bear’s projects and products.
Skills and Experience
* Strong working knowledge of state estimation, sensor fusion and navigation tools and techniques, e.g., Kalman filters.
* Strong working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink.
* Knowledge of the principles and characteristics of sensors and sensing processes.
* Experience in data processing and analysis.
* Experience in sensor selection, evaluation and modelling.
* Experience developing and specifying ground and flight test plans to verify and validate developed algorithms.
* Understanding of flight mechanics.
* Ability to work collaboratively rather than in isolation.
* Knowledge of GNSS and other positioning technologies (e.g., Visual Navigation).
* Software architecture awareness for supporting software implementation, considering performance, security and redundancy constraints.
* Knowledge of networking (e.g., TCP/IP).
* Knowledge of serial interfaces (e.g., RS422/485).
* Awareness of quality, safety and security standards for software (e.g., DO‑178).
* Good communication skills for internal and external technical discussions.
* Awareness of MQTT, DDS and GIS.
* Existing SC clearance.
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