Engineer Guidance Navigation Control 3

Job#: 3054086

Job Description:

Engineer Guidance Navigation Control 3

Location: Chandler, Arizona (On-site)

Clearance: Secret Clearance

Role Overview

This organization invites you to bring your pioneering spirit and technical leadership to our collaborative teams. As a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, you will play a key role in missions of national importance by leading the development and refinement of GNC solutions. This position is 100% onsite. You will lead the development and evaluation of GNC systems for advanced aerospace applications, applying mathematical modeling, control theory, and algorithm development to achieve precise navigation and control performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, verification, and test of high-quality software and simulation toolchains.
• Own the development and maintenance of six-degree-of-freedom (6 DOF) simulations used to design, analyze, and validate flight algorithms and flight code.
• Optimize flight and simulation software for performance, robustness, and maintainability.
• Define and execute trajectory analysis and optimization campaigns to evaluate mission performance and GNC designs.
• Present technical results, risks, and recommendations to program leadership.
• Mentor early-career engineers and provide technical direction on GNC approaches.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across integration, test, and analysis activities.

Required Qualifications

Education: A Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

Experience: A Bachelor's degree with 12 years of professional experience, a Master's degree with 10 years of professional experience, or a PhD with 8 years of professional experience. Demonstrated experience with guidance, navigation, and/or control concepts, algorithms, or analysis for aerospace or missile systems. Experience leading or contributing to development, modeling, simulation, test, integration, or analysis activities for aerospace or autonomous systems.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain a DOD secret clearance within a reasonable timeframe as dictated by the program prior to starting program work.

Technical Skills: Proficiency with C++, GNC, and MATLAB, with development in a Linux environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DOD Secret Clearance
• A Master's or PhD in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Strong foundation in control systems theory and guidance law design, including application to flight software.
• Navigation experience including Kalman filters, GPS anti-jam techniques, and M-code, with the ability to analyze and tune performance.
• Experience with tracking, discrimination, and state estimation algorithms for aerospace or autonomous systems.
• Competence in Python, Atlassian Jira, and development in a Linux environment, including use of modern software engineering practices such as version control and continuous integration.
• Familiarity with 6DoF, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), Guidance Systems, Hypersonics, LQR, PID Control, and Rigid Body Dynamics.

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