Northrop Grumman Australia ยท 2 months ago
Guidance Navigation & Controls (GNC) Engineer (Principal / Sr Principal)
United States-Florida-Melbourne
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$93K/yr - $139K/yr
3+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leader in technology and innovation, seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join their Vehicle Engineering team in Melbourne, Florida. This role involves designing and developing algorithms and software for GNC of manned aircraft, as well as analyzing flight data and supporting flight test activities.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform GNC of manned aircraft
Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities and stability margin requirements, both on-ground and in-flight
Develop system and software requirements for GNC features and support requirement verification through test procedure development, lab testing and reporting
Design pilot relief autopilot and associated logic functions
Develop air vehicle system linear and non-linear dynamic simulation models and integrate models into software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments
Define and execute performance and flying qualities analysis
Support pilot-in-the-loop simulation handling qualities testing
Analyze air vehicle flight test data and support flight test activities
Utilize excellent communication skills to report program milestones, technical approaches, and findings to GNC as well as program management
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant engineering and/or lab experience for Principal Engineer Level
Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 8 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 6 years of relevant experience or PhD with 4 years of relevant engineering and/or lab experience for Sr. Principal Engineer Level
Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics
Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems
Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics
Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data
Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance prior to the commencement of employment
Preferred
Experience designing control laws for piloted fixed-wing aircraft, performing handling qualities analyses, and pilot-in-loop evaluations
Experience with control design and analysis processes including the development of the control laws, and hardware/software requirements for air vehicles
Experience designing, developing, and implementing flight software algorithms to support GNC functions for air vehicles
Experience designing, developing, and implementing simulation software to test and verify mission requirements for air vehicles
Experience with navigation functions including the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality
Experience with guidance functions including the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation, or trajectory
Working knowledge of MIL-STD-1797 flying qualities requirements
Experience creating and executing requirement verification test procedures
Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems
C/C++ and/or Python Programming Skills
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase