Controls Engineering Man

2 weeks ago


Melbourne FL, United States Northrop Grumman Full time

Category: Engineering
- Clearance Type: SAP
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals in Melbourne, Florida.

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

- This role can be filled as a Principal Engineer (level 3) or Sr Principal Engineer (level 4) depending on the qualifications below.

Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics

- 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

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

- Working knowledge of MIL-STD-1797 flying qualities requirements

- C/C++ and/or Python Programming Skills

In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.



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