Staff GNC Engineer: Flight Control & Autonomy

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); Sur place; USD 153 000 - 266 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Staff Engineer to advance guidance, navigation and control for unmanned and manned air vehicles. This role involves developing control laws, validating with simulations, and supporting flight tests in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Location options include Rancho Bernardo, CA, or Roy, UT. Travel up to 20% is expected. A Secret security clearance is required or obtainable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience or Master’s with 10 years or PhD with 8 years.
• Experience with fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics.
• Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems.
• Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics.
• Experience with autopilot functions.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience with logic, modes, and states for autonomous aircraft.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Ability to obtain a US Government Secret security clearance (or higher) and SAP.

Responsabilités

• Support R&D of flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles.
• Design, implement, verify, and test guidance, navigation and control algorithms and software.
• Develop control laws to meet performance and stability requirements.
• Design outer and inner loop control laws and autonomy functions.
• Develop dynamic models and integrate them into simulation environments.
• Perform performance and flying qualities analyses.
• Support non-linear simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Support flight test activities and analyze test data.
• Develop analyses to support design reviews (PDR, CDR).

Connaissances

Flight dynamics

Linear control

MATLAB

Simulink

Autopilot functions

Control laws design

Python

C/C++

Lua scripting

Travel coordination

Formation

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Outils

Stateflow

MIL-STD-1797

Description du poste

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Staff Engineer to advance guidance, navigation and control for unmanned and manned air vehicles. This role involves developing control laws, validating with simulations, and supporting flight tests in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Location options include Rancho Bernardo, CA, or Roy, UT. Travel up to 20% is expected. A Secret security clearance is required or obtainable.