Sr. Principal Navigation & Controls Engineer

PeopleSuite Talent Solutions; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer to join their GNC team. This role involves designing and analyzing navigation solutions for precision-guided systems, requiring a Master's degree and significant experience in the field. The engineer will work on complex challenges, contributing to advanced navigation technologies and systems performance analysis.

Qualifications

• Typically a Master’s Degree and 6+ years of experience in Guidance, Navigation, or Controls.
• Proven skills in developing flight algorithms for guided projectiles.
• Experience with systems engineering trade studies and analysis.

Responsibilities

• GNC System design, analysis, modeling, and simulation.
• Conduct flight system performance analysis and verification.
• Prepare presentations and contract deliverables related to designs.

Skills

Kalman Filtering

Digital Signal Processing

Modeling and Simulation

C / C++

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Master’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Simulink

Matlab

MS Office

Job description

Our company is looking for an experienced Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer focused on Navigation to work on a team of GNC Engineers solving complex problems and bringing new technologies to market

This is a technical position performing complex guidance, navigation, and control design and analysis for precision-guided munition systems. The primary focus of this position is navigation solution design, implementation, testing, and deployment within the GNC group. The Guidance, Navigation, and Control Group is responsible for all requirements, trade studies, algorithm designs, and performance analyses to develop products that navigate, guide and fly precisely and accurately. Their scope includes aerodynamic analysis and model development, flight control system design and analysis, system and system of system performance analysis, actuation system and inertial measurement unit analysis, aided navigation system design and analysis, mid-course and terminal guidance design and optimization, as well as flight test support, data reduction, and verification.

Responsibilities

• GNC System design, analysis, modeling, and simulation
• Apply knowledge of estimation techniques, such as Kalman Filtering, to provide aided navigation solutions, target state estimates, and other observers for guided flight
• Apply digital signal processing techniques and navigation system error analysis to verify sensor and filter performance
• Conduct flight system performance analysis, including nonlinear modeling, digital control, and system effectiveness analysis
• Perform post-flight reconstruction and analysis to verify system flight test performance and validate flight simulation models
• Develop, modify, and maintain
• Software tools to include evaluation of nominal and Monte Carlo flight conditions at various levels of modeling fidelity
• GPS and telemetry processing tools for the reduction and analysis of flight test data
• Prepare presentations, reports, research, and other contract deliverables related to designs, analyses, and tests performed

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Typically a Master’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering or Applied Mathematics or Applied Physics and 6+ years of experience in Guidance, Navigation, or Controls theory, test and analysis
• Proven skills at developing, testing, and refining flight algorithms for guided projectiles or other high-integrity flight systems (Navigation filters, track filters, 6DOF fly-out, autopilot approaches, guidance algorithms, tactical code development, and engagement simulations)
• Developed and demonstrated advanced aided navigation solutions with strap-down inertial measurement units (IMU’s)
• Experience performing systems engineering trade studies, analysis of alternatives, sensitivity analysis, etc.
• Relevant experience developing and verifying models of concept flight systems and subsystems that include
• Seekers, radar systems, GPS / GNSS, launch platforms, inertial measurement units, magnetometers
• Navigation, up finding, and air data estimation solutions
• Proficiency with modeling and simulation using Simulink and analysis and optimization in Matlab
• Working knowledge of C / C++
• Demonstrated presentation skills and experienced interfacing with customer
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Proactive, self-starting, independent, flexible engineer with excellent interpersonal skills

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Relevant experience developing and verifying models of concept flight systems and subsystems that include
• Airframes, flight dynamics, environmental models, tail and canard control actuation systems
• Guidance, autopilot, fault detection, automated mode logic, and fuzing solutions
• Simulated complex missions in real-time and non-real-time for requirements analysis, stability analysis, and mission effectiveness analysis and has developed, tested, and delivered code for guided munition or other flight systems.
• Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering or Applied Mathematics or Applied Physics
• Recent task management experience in an engineering development environment (schedule and budget tracking / work package management)
• Current Department of Defense Secret Clearance