Senior Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Gather, define and document Guidance, Navigation and Control mission requirements and ensure requirements traceability and quality from the system level to component level
• Use multidisciplinary model data (aero, mass properties, propulsion, etc.) to develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model
• Support design of flight control laws and tools to achieve design and performance targets
• Use advanced analysis to assess and refine the control law design
• Perform model validation against test data to inform and improve the accuracy of the simulation environment
• Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, and signal shaping to properly bound the performance within all areas of the flight envelope
• Work with multi-discipline engineers to incorporate control laws into the operational flight program
• Support flight simulations, hardware in the loop testing, and flight testing
• Participate in design reviews, analyses, simulations and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations
• Author and maintain engineering documentation for consistency and delivery.
• Perform and document design of Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems models and tools and guides less experienced engineers in performance of the designs
• Lead, organize and resolve cross-divisional problems to provide technical assistance to internal/external customers
• Assure cost, time effective, creative solutions and disposition of issues to assure customer satisfaction
• Perform a wide variety of complex trades studies to meet program requirements
• Work under consultative direction
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
• 14 or more years related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• Master of Science degree in Engineering and 12 or more years related work experience
• Experience with system and component modeling
• Experience with implementing algorithms in a real time system
• Experience programming in C/C#
• Advanced Control Systems courses
• Experience using Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX