Senior GNC Engineer, Secret Clearance, 25% Travel

Northrop Grumman; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime eligible

Shift differential

Discretionary bonus

Long Term Incentives

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Principal or Senior Principal GNC Engineer to advance guidance, navigation and control for advanced air vehicles. You will design, implement, and test control laws, develop linear and non-linear models, and work across hardware-in-the-loop environments.

A current Secret clearance and willingness to travel up to 20% are required. This position offers competitive salary ranges, exposure to cutting-edge avionics, and a collaborative

Qualifications

• Experience with fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics.
• Experience using linear control principles to design feedback control systems.
• Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics.
• Working knowledge of autopilot functions and outer/inner loop control law performance requirements.
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.
• Working knowledge of logic, modes, and states for autonomous aircraft.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Current, active US Government Secret security clearance or higher and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Support research and development of flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles.
• Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control of autonomous unmanned aircraft.
• Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities, and stability margin requirements, both on ground and in flight.
• Design outer and inner loop control laws, and associated logic and autonomy functions.
• Develop air vehicle system linear and non-linear dynamic simulation models and integrate models into software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments.
• Perform performance and flying qualities analysis.
• Support non-linear simulation and hardware-in-the-loop lab testing.
• Support flight test activities and analyze air vehicle flight test data.
• Develop analysis to support design reviews at different stages in a development program, such as PDR, CDR, etc.

Skills

Flight dynamics

Linear control

Non-linear simulations

Autopilot functions

MATLAB

Simulink

Autonomy logic

Travel up to 20%

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Master's in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Principal or Senior Principal GNC Engineer to advance guidance, navigation and control for advanced air vehicles. You will design, implement, and test control laws, develop linear and non-linear models, and work across hardware-in-the-loop environments.

A current Secret clearance and willingness to travel up to 20% are required. This position offers competitive salary ranges, exposure to cutting-edge avionics, and a collaborative