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Northrop Grumman · 2 months ago

Guidance Navigation & Controls (GNC) Engineer (Principal / Sr Principal)

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$93K/yr - $139K/yr

3+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join their Vehicle Engineering team in Melbourne, Florida. The role involves designing, developing, and testing algorithms and software for GNC of manned aircraft, as well as developing control laws and conducting performance analysis.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.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

Guidance Navigation ControlsFixed-wing aircraft dynamicsControl laws designMATLABC/C++ ProgrammingPython ProgrammingSimulinkCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

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

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

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