USAGNC Engineer
3 нед. назад
USASenior
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Develop and lead guidance, navigation, and control system development for missile systems including algorithm design and hardware integration.
Обязанности
- Own all aspects of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) system development for missile systems, including architecture definition, algorithm design, verification, hardware integration, flight test support, and operational deployment.
- Design, test, and validate GNC flight software and embedded algorithms for missiles operating across multiple flight regimes and environmental conditions.
- Develop and maintain navigation and state estimation algorithms, including sensor fusion frameworks (e.g., EKF, UKF, particle filters) integrating IMU, GPS/INS, seeker data, and other sensor modalities to provide high-rate, high-accuracy state estimates throughout the engagement timeline.
- Develop guidance laws (proportional navigation, augmented PN, optimal guidance) and autopilot designs; implement them in flight software; verify performance and robustness through high-fidelity 6-DOF simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight test correlation.
- Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments capturing aerodynamics, propulsion, atmospheric effects, target dynamics, sensor models, and actuator dynamics for SIL, HIL, and mission analysis across the full flight envelope.
- Utilize frequency-domain and time-domain control analysis techniques to ensure stability margins.
- Develop terminal guidance algorithms for intercept of maneuvering targets, including target tracking, aimpoint selection, miss distance prediction, time-to-go estimation, and endgame steering logic.
Требования
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or related field
- 5+ years of relevant GNC engineering experience in the aerospace and defense industry, preferably with tactical missile systems, interceptors, or guided munitions
- Coursework or project experience in flight dynamics, aerodynamics, control systems, and state estimation
- Strong understanding of physics, rigid body dynamics, intercept geometry, proportional navigation, and real-time software development principles
- Experience with C++ and/or Python for algorithm development, numerical methods, real-time control, or simulation
- Familiarity with missile GNC concepts including guidance laws, autopilot design, sensor fusion, inertial navigation, seeker operation, and aerodynamic/thrust vector control
- Exposure to filtering and estimation methods (e.g., Kalman filters, complementary filters, INS/GPS integration) through internships, coursework, or projects
- Ability to build, test, and debug flight software, real-time control systems, and simulation tools
- Strong analytical skills with emphasis on dynamics, controls, and numerical methods; ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary engineering environment
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex technical problems and drive solutions from concept through flight test
- Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI US government security clearance
- Work Location —This is an onsite position, Successful candidates will be located near Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA
- Work environment —the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
- Physical demands —the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
- This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below. #LI-Onsite
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us.
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Будет плюсом
- Master's degree or PhD in aerospace engineering, control systems, or equivalent discipline
- Experience with terminal guidance algorithms, proportional navigation variants, optimal guidance theory, or modern guidance techniques
- Experience developing autopilot designs for agile missiles including gain scheduling, adaptive control, or nonlinear control methods
- Experience with INS/GPS integration, sensor calibration, alignment algorithms, and error budget analysis
- Experience with aerodynamic modeling, CFD correlation to flight data, or aeroservoelastic analysis
- Experience developing and executing hardware-in-the-loop test campaigns with flight representative GNC hardware
- Flight test experience including test planning, instrumentation selection, telemetry analysis, and flight data reconstruction
- Experience with intercept kinematics, target tracking, miss distance analysis, and covariance propagation
- Experience performing line-of-sight stability analysis including jitter, noise rejection, and seeker tracking performance
- Hands-on experience with GNC hardware integration, sensor characterization, and actuator calibration
- Familiarity with missile-specific tools and standards (e.g., MISSILE DATCOM, MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1760)
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
Условия
- Base Salary: $115,000 - $290,000
- Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave
- Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.
Другое
- Space is a warfighting domain. seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.
- OUR MISSION
- delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.
- OUR VALUES
- Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
- What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
- It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.