Aeronautics Systems Engineer

1 day ago

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

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a highly skilled Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team in Melbourne, Florida.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and implement 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.
  • 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.
Requirements:
  • Principal Engineer: Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Sr Principal Engineer: BS in a STEM discipline and 9 years of relevant experience; OR MS in a STEM discipline and 7 years of relevant 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 Qualifications:
  • 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.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. 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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