Sensor Fusion Software Lead

Saab
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Last month
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Lead
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Posted
22 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Introduction

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.

The Role:

This role is part of Saab BlueBear in Bedfordshire.

You will be required to support a mixture of R&D and product development activities and will be keen to get involved in all development areas, and have a good track history / proven track record in both problem solving and quality software development.

Your role as a Sensor Fusion Lead will involve architecting, designing, implementing and testing embedded applications primarily focused around 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:

Primarily, your role will be to own maintain, architect and develop our current sensor fusion capabilities and algorithms and add new features in a structured and maintainable manner under direction of product owner.

Research, Architect, Design and Test Sensor Fusion algorithms using Mathworks or other tooling.

Communicate the design to the software development engineers for Sensor Fusion activities to deliver new features and capabilities to our Autonomy and UAV systems.

Ensure the Sensor Fusion design considers and implements 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.

Ensure Sensor Fusion knowledge transfer through written and other methods to the rest of the team.

Gain understanding and technically contribute to Blue Bear's projects and products.

Skills and Experience:

Strong working knowledge of state estimation / sensor fusion / navigation tools and techniques e.g. Kalman filters.

Strong working knowledge of Kalman filters and their variations. * 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 of developing and specifying ground and flight test plans to verify and validate the developed algorithms.

Understanding of flight mechanics.

Looks 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 taking into account constraints of performance, security and redundancy.

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 any of the following MQTT, DDS and GIS

Existing SC Clearance

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview

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