GN&C Subject Matter Expert

3 days ago

Huntsville, United States Mclaurin Aerospace Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration.

We have an exciting opportunity for a GN&C Subject Matter Expert to join our ESSCA contract team at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.

The Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for projects ranging from CubeSats to NASA's Space Launch System(SLS). We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support the design, development, and oversight of the Human Lander Systems Program in the Control Systems Design and Analysis branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as a Controls, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Subject Matter Expert. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans backto the Moon, Mars and beyond

If selected you will:

  • Develop and/or oversee the development, verification, and validation of launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander controlsystems.
  • Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander control system performance and stabilityincluding 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 ofcontrol 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

Qualifications:

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

  • A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field is required. A Degree from an ABET accreditedinstitution is preferred. Typical experience requirements are the equivalent of a PhD with at least 4 years of experience, a master's with at least 8 years of experience, or BS with at least 10 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 that can 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 remote 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 stateequations 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
  • 401k after 12 months of service with employer match
  • Education assistance
  • Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Mclaurin is a unique organization with a special focus on combining the best features of research and industry in order to foster innovation. Our organization strongly supports research, publication, and engagement with the academic community. We encourage our employees to remain on the cutting edge of new developments in their respective disciplines.

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

Mclaurin 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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