GNC Engineer

Waypoint Human Capital; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Waypoint Human Capital is seeking two experienced Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineers to support an on-site missile and weapon systems program for a defense customer in Huntsville, Alabama. The engineers will develop and assess guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion solutions from early analysis through integration and test.

Candidates should have 8+ years of GNC-related experience, a relevant engineering degree, and strong MATLAB/Simulink skills. U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant GNC, estimation, controls, navigation, or flight dynamics experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Strong foundation in dynamics, control theory, state estimation, numerical methods, and linear algebra.
• Hands-on experience developing and evaluating algorithms in MATLAB and/or Simulink.
• Experience communicating conclusions through technical documentation and reviews.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance if required by the program.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, and mature GNC algorithms for missile and weapon system applications.
• Design and tune Kalman filter-based estimators, including extended or unscented forms.
• Develop and evaluate flight dynamics, navigation error models, autopilot functions, guidance laws, and control-system performance.
• Use MATLAB and Simulink for trade studies, sensitivity analyses, Monte Carlo assessments, and requirements verification.
• Integrate algorithms with six-degree-of-freedom and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Analyze system performance, document recommendations, and support technical reviews.
• Establish GNC architecture, lead trades, mentor engineers, and coordinate across teams.

Skills

GNC experience

Controls theory

State estimation

Numerical methods

Linear algebra

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Position Title:

Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer

Position Type:

Full-Time, On-Site

Location:

Huntsville, AL

Clearance:

U.S. Citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. Government Security Clearance

Waypoint’s client is seeking two experienced Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineers to support an on-site missile and weapon systems program for a defense customer. The engineers will develop and assess guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion solutions from early analysis through integration and test.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, analyze, and mature guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion algorithms for missile and weapon system applications.
• Design and tune Kalman filter-based estimators, including extended or unscented approaches where appropriate to the solution.
• Develop and evaluate flight dynamics, navigation error models, autopilot functions, guidance laws, and control-system performance.
• Use MATLAB and Simulink for trade studies, sensitivity analyses, Monte Carlo assessments, and requirements verification.
• Integrate algorithms with six-degree-of-freedom and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Analyze system performance, document recommendations, and support technical reviews.
• Establish GNC architecture, lead trades, mentor engineers, and coordinate across systems, software, algorithms, modeling, hardware, and test teams.

Required:

• At least 8 years of relevant GNC, estimation, controls, navigation, or flight dynamics experience.
• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Strong foundation in dynamics, control theory, state estimation, numerical methods, and linear algebra.
• Hands-on experience developing and evaluating algorithms in MATLAB and/or Simulink.
• Experience analyzing time-domain and frequency-domain performance and communicating conclusions through technical documentation and reviews.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance if required by the program; an active clearance is not required at hire.

Desired:

• Direct missile, interceptor, guided weapon, flight control, or aerospace GNC experience.
• Experience with Kalman filtering, inertial navigation, GPS-aided navigation, sensor fusion, target-state estimation, or tracking.
• Experience with six-degree-of-freedom simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, flight envelopes, and performance requirements allocation.
• Working knowledge of C/C++, Python, embedded implementation, or automatic code-generation workflows.
• Experience integrating radar, electro-optical/infrared, inertial, GPS, or other sensor data into a navigation or guidance solution.
• Experience supporting software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, ground test, flight test, or post-test data analysis.