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Job ID: 2403815
Location: EGLIN AFB, FL, US
Date Posted: 2024-03-13
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Guidance, Navigation, Control
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer to support the Air Force's guided weapons research, development, modeling, analyses, and simulation of GNC algorithms. This will include simulation, hardware-in the-loop, and field testing. Our customer is the US Air Force Armament Directorate Office located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
A successful candidate will be assigned to a small team of scientist and engineers working with civil service government engineers. They will be developing, modeling, and analyzing within a laboratory, testing both advanced components and systems.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Location: EGLIN AFB, FL, US
Date Posted: 2024-03-13
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Guidance, Navigation, Control
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer to support the Air Force's guided weapons research, development, modeling, analyses, and simulation of GNC algorithms. This will include simulation, hardware-in the-loop, and field testing. Our customer is the US Air Force Armament Directorate Office located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
A successful candidate will be assigned to a small team of scientist and engineers working with civil service government engineers. They will be developing, modeling, and analyzing within a laboratory, testing both advanced components and systems.
Responsibilities:
- The candidate shall assist with the development of integrated guided munitions, navigation, and control algorithms.
- Development of models and analyses to assist in the development of functional simulations for both tactical and strategic guidance systems.
- Evaluate concepts' or concept subsystems' performance and stability. Help establish concept performance limitations.
- Assist in modeling and simulation development of guided weapons systems and concepts.
- Document studies and analysis findings via briefings, scientific papers and technical reports.
- Software implementation of complex guidance, navigation, and controls algorithms.
- Work with a small team of scientists and engineers to model, simulate and study the performance of potential Air Force guided weapon systems, concepts and advanced weapon subsystem technologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in engineering, scientific or related field (M.S/M.E desired)
- 3+ years' experience in guidance, navigation, and controls algorithm development and analyses; Modeling and Simulation experience desired
- Knowledge of Virtual and Constructive simulation development and the use of these simulations for guided weapon system and concept flight performance predictions
- Scientific programming experience required
- C++, Python, and/or MATLAB
- Machine Learning experience a plus
- Understanding of digital signal processing techniques
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.