Staff Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer
- Location:
- Melbourne, Florida, United States of America
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.
This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is hiring a Staff Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals in Melbourne, Florida. This position is fully onsite with no remote work available.
Responsibilities may include
- Lead the Guidance, Navigation, and Control system engineering requirement maturation
- Lead the integration of autopilot and autothrottle capabilities into the Vehicle Management System
- Lead subsystem level certification activities
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 12 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 10 years of relevant experience
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
- Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft dynamics
- Knowledge of fly-by-wire control systems
- Experience in system engineering requirement definition, verification, and validation
- Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop responses
- Experience creating certification test procedures and test cases
- Working knowledge of autopilot and autothrottle capabilities into Vehicle Management Systems
- Working knowledge of Flight Management Systems, including RNAV
- Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
- Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.
- Experience using Model Based System Engineering tools
- Familiarity with programming (C/C++, Python)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing and integrating autopilot and autothrottle capabilities into Vehicle Management Systems
- Experience with Flight Management Systems, including RNAV
- Experience using CAMEO to create system requirement models
- Experience using System Composer to create software architecture
- Experience with MIL-STD-1797B
- Experience with AS94900 or MIL-STD-9490
- Experience with DO-178C
- Experience for Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
- Active DoD secret clearance