Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems Expert

4 weeks ago

Huntsville, Alabama, United States Mclaurin Aerospace Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems Expert to join our team at Mclaurin Aerospace. As a key member of our Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the implementation of GN&C systems for various space-related projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and/or oversee the development, verification, and validation of launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander control systems.
  • Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander control system performance and stability, including during touchdown.
  • Interface with HLS partners to seek understanding of their design/test data and potentially participate in partners' tests.
  • Periodically analyze HLS partner flight data and present findings to NASA management.
  • Mentor junior engineers in conducting control system modeling, simulation, and analysis.
  • Resolve complex problems pertaining to the design, development, analysis, integration, evaluation, testing, and verification of control systems and 6-DoF models and simulations.
  • Develop, modify, maintain, and improve software simulations, tools, and scripts.
  • Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DoF Monte Carlo simulations.
  • Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft control.
  • Create, edit, and debug software written in Matlab, Simulink, and Simscape.
  • Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings, including visualization of results.
  • Create and review engineering and software documentation.

Requirements
  • A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or a related field is required. A degree from an ABET-accredited institution is preferred.
  • Typical experience requirements are the equivalent of a PhD with at least 19 years of experience, a master's with at least 23 years of experience, or a BS with at least 25 years of experience.
  • Design and development of flight control systems (PID, state space, etc.) and actuator allocation (manual jet selection, quadratic programming, pseudo inverse, etc.), including TVC and RCS/Phase plane.
  • Analyzing system performance in the time and frequency domain (Nichols, Bode, Nyquist, Root Locus, etc.) using parametric, Monte Carlo, and statistical techniques.
  • Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and landers.
  • Modeling of spacecraft components/subsystems, including Thrust Vector Control (TVC) actuators, Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters, slosh, pogo, rigid and/or flexible body dynamics, and/or sensors.
  • Programming in Matlab, Simulink, Simscape, and C/C++.
  • Experience performing software development, verification, and validation.
  • Experience performing trade studies, sensitivity, and/or Monte Carlo simulation and analyses related to the control of launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.
  • Must be detail-oriented and self-motivated, able to work independently, taking projects from start to finish without much oversight.
  • Must also be able to work collaboratively with other team members, both locally and remotely, at other facilities or vendors.
  • Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Ability to derive multi-body spacecraft dynamics equations of motion, including both nonlinear equations and linear state equations, and integrate subsystem models into larger simulations.
  • Programming in other languages, such as Python.
  • Familiarity with and an understanding of trajectory and orbital dynamics.
  • Experience with creating animations/visualization from results of 3-DoF/6-DoF simulations using tools such as Unreal Engine, Satellite Tool Kit (STK), etc.
  • Model-based design.

Benefits
  • Competitive pay.
  • Positive work-life balance.
  • 100% employer-paid insurance, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
  • 11 paid holidays annually.
  • Generous PTO.
  • 401(k) after 12 months of service, with employer match.
  • Education assistance.
  • Relocation assistance (if applicable).

US Citizenship and the ability to pass a comprehensive security background investigation are required.

Mclaurin Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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