Job Title: Control Systems Engineer (m/f/d)
Company Name: Halian
Job Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Work Mode: On-site
Date Posted: 27-07-2026
Job Reference/ID: 240990
Job Description / Role:
We are seeking an experienced Controls Systems Engineer with deep expertise in the design, development, and deployment of real-time, time-critical, and safety-critical control systems. This role is responsible for creating advanced closed-loop control solutions for precision motion and tracking applications, including stabilization, target tracking, actuator control, and real-time system integration. The successful candidate will lead the development of robust control architectures that deliver high performance, reliability, and deterministic behaviour in demanding operating environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize closed-loop control algorithms, including PID, state-space, and advanced control methods such as LQR and Model Predictive Control (MPC).
- Develop stabilization systems that compensate for vibration, motion disturbances, environmental influences, and other dynamic operating conditions.
- Create and maintain real-time tracking and positioning control loops, converting sensor-derived state information into precise actuator commands with minimal latency and overshoot.
- Define data interfaces between sensing, estimation, and control subsystems, ensuring accurate synchronization, coordinate transformation, data integrity, and fault handling.
- Model, simulate, and validate dynamic system behaviour, actuator performance, and control-loop stability prior to deployment.
- Design and implement deterministic real-time control software on embedded platforms, RTOS environments, or bare-metal hardware.
- Establish and manage timing budgets across sensing, computation, communication, and actuation functions to meet strict performance requirements.
- Apply safety-critical engineering principles, including redundancy, watchdog mechanisms, fault detection, protective limits, graceful degradation, and fail-safe operation.
- Support system integration, calibration, commissioning, and performance validation activities.
- Develop fault-management strategies and fallback operating modes for sensor failures, communication interruptions, loss of feedback, or actuator malfunctions.
- Perform control-system verification through simulation, laboratory testing, field validation, and performance analysis.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation covering system architecture, control strategies, tuning methodologies, performance metrics, timing analysis, and validation results.
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in closed-loop, real-time, and safety-critical control system design and implementation.
- Demonstrated experience with motion-control systems, stabilization platforms, precision pointing mechanisms, robotics, automation systems, or other advanced control applications.
- Prior experience delivering real-time control solutions from concept through deployment is highly desirable.
Education Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Control Engineering, or a related discipline.
Skills Required:
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ development for embedded and real-time systems.
- Advanced knowledge of classical and modern control theory, including PID control, state-space modelling, system identification, and frequency-domain analysis.
- Proven experience designing and implementing real-time control systems with deterministic execution, latency control, jitter management, and timing analysis.
- Expertise in safety-critical system development, including fault tolerance, redundancy strategies, watchdog implementation, and protection mechanisms.
- Understanding of motion-control systems, servo drives, actuators, sensors, feedback systems, and control-loop integration.
- Familiarity with real-time operating systems such as VxWorks, QNX, FreeRTOS, or equivalent platforms.
- Software development tools including version control, build systems, automated testing, and debugging.
Employment / Job Type: CONTRACTOR
About the Company:
Technology recruitment and managed services company operating across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, with a strong Dubai and Abu Dhabi presence. Halian supplies permanent hires, contractors, and full managed teams to banking, government, telecommunications, energy, and healthcare clients across software engineering, cloud, cyber security, data, and enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle.
Company Industry: Engineering & Technology
Department / Functional Area: Control Systems Engineering
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates may apply by submitting their resume/CV through the official Halian career website.
