Missile GNC Intern: Flight Dynamics & Navigation

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 30,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education assistance

Retirement contributions

Job summary

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory seeks a Missile GNC Intern to apply engineering, physics, or math to guidance, navigation, and control for strategic missile systems. You will join a team of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians focused on independent evaluation of national systems.

Responsibilities include developing navigation and guidance algorithms, extending a software library, and working with MATLAB/Simulink to model sensor performance.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in engineering, math, or physics.
• Willing to learn new skills and expand capabilities.
• Minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
• Eligible for interim Secret level clearance with U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Learn about inertial navigation with accelerometers and gyroscopes and apply knowledge to understand inaccuracies.
• Develop understanding of linear dynamics models for controller design and compare GNC algorithms.
• Develop estimation tools to evaluate flight test dynamics and navigation of missile systems.
• Improve existing tools and processes to analyze real flight test data.
• Develop navigation, guidance, and control algorithms for 6-DOF simulations.
• Extend existing software library with full life cycle support and testing.
• Utilize optimal control theory to develop guidance algorithms.
• Work with MATLAB and Simulink to generate navigation sensor models and conduct trade studies.
• Build architectures of navigation code for embedded environments and perform validation.
• Perform hardware characterization and evaluation using standard test equipment.

Skills

MATLAB

Kalman filtering

C++

Education

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Engineering/Physics/Math

Tools

Simulink

Job description

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory seeks a Missile GNC Intern to apply engineering, physics, or math to guidance, navigation, and control for strategic missile systems. You will join a team of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians focused on independent evaluation of national systems.

Responsibilities include developing navigation and guidance algorithms, extending a software library, and working with MATLAB/Simulink to model sensor performance.