Actuation Systems Engineer—Guidance & Control

Aspire Talent Solutions; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 76,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspire Talent Solutions seeks a Guidance Navigation Control Engineer in Chandler, AZ for a 12 month contract. Onsite only with US citizenship requirement. Pay rate is hourly on W2 and the position focuses on actuator system modeling, simulations, and control design.

You will work under direction to develop performance specs, create linear and nonlinear models in MATLAB/C++, and perform trade studies on actuation systems for launch vehicles and other programs. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of direct actuator system modeling experience.
• Experience developing performance requirements for actuator systems.
• Experience with electro-mechanical and electro-hydraulic actuation.
• DoD Secret level security clearance required.
• Proficiency with MATLAB, C++, Simulink, and Python; modeling in Simulink.

Responsibilities

• Modeling and simulation of actuation systems for vehicles and programs.
• Design and analysis of single and multi-loop PID controls.
• Create and maintain linear and nonlinear actuator models in MATLAB and C++.
• Evaluate model outputs against test data and update models.
• Conduct actuator system engineering work and develop performance specs.

Skills

Actuator modeling

PID control

Electro-mechanical actuation

Electro-hydraulic actuation

MATLAB

C++

Simulink

Python

Model verification

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

C++

Job description

Aspire Talent Solutions seeks a Guidance Navigation Control Engineer in Chandler, AZ for a 12 month contract. Onsite only with US citizenship requirement. Pay rate is hourly on W2 and the position focuses on actuator system modeling, simulations, and control design.

You will work under direction to develop performance specs, create linear and nonlinear models in MATLAB/C++, and perform trade studies on actuation systems for launch vehicles and other programs. Security clearance is required.