Overview As a Guidance Navigation Control Engineer, you will design and validate GNC algorithms and simulation tools for missile systems, contributing to a high-fidelity flight simulator and associated documentation. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and interface closely with partner programs. Your work shapes guidance, navigation, and autopilot performance in powered flight, coast phases, and staging events. This role offers impactful work in advanced missile technology within an HPC-enabled environment.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, implement, verify, and test GNC algorithms and simulations for missile systems
- Develop and validate a missile flight simulator
- Create and maintain Interface Control Documents, Requirement Specifications, and Description Documents
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and participate in partner program meetings
- Model hardware and apply missile guidance and autopilot concepts in a high-performance computing environment
Key requirements- Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 2+ years (Master's with 1+ year or PhD with 0+ years acceptable)
- Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
- U.S. citizen
- Proficiency in C++, MATLAB, and Python toolchains
- Experience with high performance computing
- Experience with missile guidance and autopilot algorithms
- team collaboration
- clear communication across disciplines
- ability to work with international partner programs
- C++
- MATLAB
- Python
