Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer – Missile Missions

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Northridge, CA, is seeking an Engineer in Guidance, Navigation and Control to support Advance Weapons. This 100% on-site role offers collaboration across disciplines and opportunities to develop new models and CONOPs.

The successful candidate will design trajectories, optimize mission performance, develop flight constants and guidance parameters, and create software tools for mission design and testing. A DoD clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• Familiar with Guidance, Navigation and Flight Control algorithms.
• Active DoD Secret clearance is required, with ability to obtain Top Secret.

Responsibilities

• Drive full cycle of mission trajectories from requirements to mission execution.
• Perform trajectory design, optimization and dispersion analysis for missile missions.
• Develop flight constants and guidance parameters to meet mission requirements.
• 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 capabilities.
• Interact with customers to execute current missions and develop future business.

Skills

Guidance algorithms

Navigation algorithms

Flight control algorithms

Design Guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Northridge, CA, is seeking an Engineer in Guidance, Navigation and Control to support Advance Weapons. This 100% on-site role offers collaboration across disciplines and opportunities to develop new models and CONOPs.

The successful candidate will design trajectories, optimize mission performance, develop flight constants and guidance parameters, and create software tools for mission design and testing. A DoD clearance is required.