Guidance Navigation Control Engineer — Spacecraft (Level 2/3)

Northrop Grumman; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA, seeks a Guidance Navigation Control (GNC) Engineer at Level 2/3 to provide analysis, design, and operations support for space vehicle and payload control systems. The role covers requirements flow-down, algorithm design, simulation development, and operating procedures to support GNC throughout flight operations.

Responsibilities include translating objectives into GNC requirements, performing trade studies for sensors/actuators/architectures, and building

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree.
• Willing and able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Ability to perform kinematics, dynamics, and control system analyses for space vehicle and payload GNC.
• Experience using MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission objectives and customer needs into clear GNC requirements.
• Collaborate across functional teams to perform trade studies to choose GNC sensors, actuators, and algorithm architectures.
• Develop and validate high‑fidelity 3‑DOF/6‑DOF models and simulations of attitude, ephemeris, and line‑of‑sight dynamics.
• Design, implement, and verify GNC algorithms, including trackers, filters, and controllers.
• Build, test, and integrate software and simulation tools that enable reliable space vehicle and payload GNC throughout flight operations.

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink

C/C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA, seeks a Guidance Navigation Control (GNC) Engineer at Level 2/3 to provide analysis, design, and operations support for space vehicle and payload control systems. The role covers requirements flow-down, algorithm design, simulation development, and operating procedures to support GNC throughout flight operations.

Responsibilities include translating objectives into GNC requirements, performing trade studies for sensors/actuators/architectures, and building