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Guidance Navigation Controls (GNC) Engineer or Principal Guidance Navigation Controls (GNC) Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-El Segundo
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time Description 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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Guidance Navigation Controls (GNC) Engineer or a Principal Guidance Navigation Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our team of qualified individuals within our South Bay Vehicle Engineering organization. This position is located at El Segundo, CA. The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and collaborative/team settings across all levels. This is a dynamic organization involved in deploying forward-leaning avionics, guidance, navigation, and control systems for developmental concepts for air vehicles, weapons, and many more platforms. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: • Support research and development of flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles. • Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control (GNC) of autonomous unmanned aircraft. • Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities, and stability margin requirements both on ground and in flight. • Design outer and inner loop control laws and associated logic and autonomy functions. • Develop air vehicle system linear and non-linear dynamic simulation models and integrate models into software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments. • Perform performance and flying qualities analysis. • Support non-linear simulation and hardware-in-the-loop lab testing. • Support flight test activities and analyze air vehicle flight test data. • Develop analysis to support design reviews at different stages in a development program, such as PDR, CDR, etc. This position may be filled at either the GNC Engineer level OR Principal GNC Engineer level, depending upon the qualifications below. Basic Qualifications for GNC Engineer: • Bachelor's degree in a relevant Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 2 years of related experience; OR a Master’s degree in a related STEM discipline with 0 years of experience. • Working knowledge of or experience with fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics. • Working knowledge of or experience with linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems. • Working knowledge of or experience with analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics. • Working knowledge of or experience with autopilot functions. • Working knowledge of or experience with outer loop control law performance requirements. • Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data. • Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems. • Familiarity with autocoding Simulink models • Working knowledge of logic, modes, and states for autonomous aircraft. • Familiarity with C/C++ programming. • Familiarity with Py