Senior Principal GNC Engineer — Autonomy & Flight Controls

ngc; El Segundo (CA); Sur place; USD 142 000 - 213 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Principal Engineer - Guidance Navigation Controls to advance flight control software and guidance solutions for manned and unmanned aircraft.

This role emphasizes designing and validating control laws, developing simulation tools, and supporting flight tests within Project Talon. A US Secret clearance is required, with responsibilities spanning fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant STEM discipline with 8 years of related experience.
• Master’s degree in a relevant STEM discipline with 6 years of related experience.
• PhD in a relevant STEM discipline with 4 years of related experience.

Responsabilités

• 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 (GNC) 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.

Connaissances

Fixed-wing flight dynamics

Linear control principles

Non-linear simulations

Autopilot functions

Outer/inner loop control

MATLAB

Simulink

Simulink Stateflow

C/C++ and Python programming

Formation

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Description du poste

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Principal Engineer - Guidance Navigation Controls to advance flight control software and guidance solutions for manned and unmanned aircraft.

This role emphasizes designing and validating control laws, developing simulation tools, and supporting flight tests within Project Talon. A US Secret clearance is required, with responsibilities spanning fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments.