role servo design engineer senior principal type permanent salary up to location hertfordshire you will assume responsibility for overall servo system design and performance designing and implementing servo studies both theoretical and practical to ensure that the actuator being designed will have a performance which is within specified limits for all known conditions of usage construct complex mathematical models of the actuator for performance assessment and software specification and validate by practical testing before using for sensitivity optimization and qualification studies keep up to date in relevant technical areas develop skills and capabilities to be able to provide more effective services seeking and sharing good practice and knowledge to continuously improve practices and supply technical support and expertise to others as required carry out technical analyses and investigations independently or through leadership of a multiskilled project team of complex problems issues and opportunities to provide conclusions and implications supply technical understanding and support in areas of own expertise promoting a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation and contributing to relevant overall mbda engineering technical activities take responsibility for design authority in complexcritical areas for ownteam work packagesprojects supply expertise and consultancy support in specialist areas including providing specialist input across a range of programmes and to other functionsdepartments develop and implement plans to ensure mbda is competent and has the requisite capability technology processes and tools in specialist technical areas in line with latest developments company policy and best practice and ensure that any specialist tools are used effectively skills and knowledge degree qualified or equivalent plus substantial relevant experience matlabsimulink experience advanced understanding of motor design principles excellent working knowledge of digital signal controller microprocessors experienced practitioner of control theory and system design good commercial and financial understanding negotiating and influencing skills strategic planning capability excellent problem solving skills highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate verbally and in writing at board level technical authority able to provide technical leadership to others familiar with new technology acquisition and development able to drive the developmentimplementation of new technology successfully into the business able to develop links with other technical specialists including outside mbda and network effectively on an international basis proven record in conducting successful technical investigations and research frenchspanishitaliangerman language skills are an advantage performance indicators generation of servo system architecture evaluation of system architectures against requirements and constraints exhibits a strategic vision of the medium and long term technical capabilities of the servo system design team and is instrumental in implementing a plan of work to achieve these objectives subsystem and component definition for actuation system performance considerations well developed working knowledge of classical controlservo theory and sampled data systems working knowledge of transfer functions compensation techniques and stability criteria in both the continuous and digital domains successful specification of servo components including position and rate sensors and electric motors act as chair or panel member at formal design reviews problem solving challenges achieving project commitments to spec time and cost requirements