Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer

23 hours ago


Melbourne, Florida, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Title: Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer

Northrop Grumman is seeking a highly skilled Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer with a focus on autopilot and flight management systems (FMS) to join our Vehicle Engineering team in Melbourne, Florida.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and implement algorithms, software, and simulation tools for GNC of manned aircraft
  • Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities, and stability margin requirements
  • 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 and program management
Basic Qualifications:
  • BS in a STEM discipline and 8 years of relevant experience; OR MS in a STEM discipline and 6 years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics
  • Experience working on manned aircraft autopilot
  • Experience with any of the following:
  • Experience developing aircraft LNAV, VNAV, and/or RNAV
  • Experience coordinating/developing of concept of operations, architecture, and requirements for flight management systems (FMS) and/or manned autopilot and pilot relief software
  • Experience with mission planning, waypoints, waypoint leg types, waypoint sequencing
  • Experience with verification test case development and lab testing of FMS and/or manned autopilot and pilot relief software
  • 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 Qualifications:
  • Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems
  • Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics
  • 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
  • C/C++ and/or Python Programming Skills
  • Private Pilots License and experience using aircraft autopilot modes

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be a part of the defense industry and are dedicated to providing our employees with the opportunities and resources they need to succeed.

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