Autonomous Aircraft GNC Engineer

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 79,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer to advance flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles. You will design and test GNC software and models, develop control laws, and support flight tests in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

The role requires MATLAB/Simulink expertise, competition-ready debugging, and willingness to travel up to 25% for site activities in CA or UT. U.S. Citizenship and a Secret clearance are prerequisites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM and 2 years of related engineering experience or Master’s degree in STEM with 0 years of related engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics.
• Familiarity with linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems.
• Working knowledge of analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics.
• Working knowledge of outer and/or inner loop control law performance requirements.
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.

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.

Skills

Flight dynamics

Linear control principles

Non-linear simulations

Autonomous aircraft concepts

Travel up to 20%

US security clearance

C/C++ programming

Python programming

Lua scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Stateflow

C/C++

Python

Lua

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer to advance flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles. You will design and test GNC software and models, develop control laws, and support flight tests in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

The role requires MATLAB/Simulink expertise, competition-ready debugging, and willingness to travel up to 25% for site activities in CA or UT. U.S. Citizenship and a Secret clearance are prerequisites.