Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2/3 (AHT)

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 91,800 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

On-site workplace

Health insurance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Northridge, CA is seeking an Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2 or 3 to support Advance Weapons. This on-site role requires a DoD Secret clearance and involves mission trajectory design, simulation, and analysis across air vehicle systems.

You’ll develop CONOPs, TTPs, and models, work with cross-functional engineers and customer leadership, and contribute to proposal efforts while advancing toward Top Secret opportunities. Travel up to 10% may apply.

Qualifications

• Experience with Guidance, Navigation, and Flight Control algorithms.
• Experience with Tracking algorithms and sensor modeling.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Drive full cycle of mission trajectories from requirements to operations.
• Perform trajectory design, optimization, and dispersion analysis for air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles.
• Develop flight constants and guidance parameters to meet mission requirements.

Skills

Guidance algorithms

Navigation algorithms

Flight control

Tracking algorithms

Flight simulation

Monte Carlo modeling

Propulsion modeling

Sensor modeling

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

Bitbucket

GitHub

Gitlab

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 Defense Systems is looking for an Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2 or 3 to support Advance Weapons in Northridge, CA and will be 100% on-site. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment and shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. Relocation may be available but is not guaranteed.

Our work influences the investment decisions of our senior leadership and customer program offices. The GN&C discipline itself is a mesh of many other fields (e.g., Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.) and frequently collaborates across functional disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to obtain a broad understanding of many areas or to focus on developing a deep expertise more narrowly in any one of the relevant fields. This drives the development of clean-sheet requirements, refine existing program system requirements, and influence the pursuit of future technologies and capabilities.

You will work with air vehicle and subsystem engineers, as well as with program and customer leadership, to recommend candidate designs, and to develop Concepts of Operation (CONOPs) and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) at the system, mission, and campaign levels. The selected candidate will be responsible for developing new and / or integrate existing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models and command and control models.

What You’ll Get To Do

• You will be driving the full cycle of mission trajectories, from taking requirements from customers, design reviews, simulation, and analysis of the mission, to running operations.
• Perform trajectory design, optimization, and dispersion analysis for Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air missile missions for all phases of flight.
• Develop flight constants and guidance parameters, verified via analysis to meet mission requirements subject to mission and vehicle constraints.
• Develop software automation tools for mission design, analysis, test, and reporting.
• Perform trade studies to improve weapon performance and reliability.
• Implement new software or algorithms to support mission unique capabilities.
• Support full mission lifecycle, starting with sales and concluding with mission execution.
• Interact with customers to execute current missions and develop future business.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2:

Requires a minimum of 2 years with a Bachelor of Science degree in related field OR a Master’s degree with 0 years’ experience in a related field and required experience listed below.

Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 3

Requires a minimum of 5 years with a Bachelor of Science degree in related field OR a Master’s degree with 3 years’ experience in a related field and required experience listed below.

• Experience with Design Guidance algorithm: Guidance Law, Trajectory Optimization, Flight Vehicle Autonomy
• Experience with Design Navigation algorithm: Initial Alignment, Strapdown Propagation, INS filter
• Experience with Flight Control algorithm: Trim Point Selection, LTI Trim and Maneuver Analysis, Non-linear Dynamic Analysis
• Experience with Tracking algorithm: Angle Only Tracking, Maneuvering Target Tracking, Multi-Target Tracking, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion, Track File Manager
• Experience architecting high-fidelity multiple degree-of-freedom flight/orbital mechanics and vehicle dynamics simulation
• Experience with Modeling of navigation sensors in the Monte Carlo simulation
• Experience architecting the modeling of targeting sensors in the Monte Carlo simulation. Evaluate simulation output versus actual targeting sensors' output.
• Experience architecting flight vehicle system conceptual designs and modeling & simulation for trade studies, initial requirements definition, and contribute to proposal efforts.
• Experience architecting propulsion systems including electric, rocket, air-breathing, and attitude control thruster. Evaluate simulation output versus actual test data.
• Experience architecting modeling of actuation systems as well as design of test equipment to demonstrate actuation system performance meet requirement.
• A current/active DoD Secret clearance level and the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance level and/or program special access clearance is required.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proposal development, writing or execution
• Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university
• Familiarity with AGILE, MBSE, and / or system architecture frameworks
• Effective project management skills and good communication techniques
• Experience with version control tools (Bitbucket, GitHub, or Gitlab, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present and brief technical data to all levels of leadership within the organization and U.S. Government
• Analysis of Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability, Engagement at the mission level
• Experience integrating plug-ins to AFSIM
• Knowledge of RF Threat Modeling
• Knowledge of guided missile design
  
  

Primary Level Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $137,600.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.