Principal / Senior Principal Engineer – Guidance Navigation Controls
- Location:
- Redondo Beach, California, United States of America | El Segundo, California, United States of America
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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal or Senior Principal Engineer Guidance Navigation Controls to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our South Bay Vehicle Engineering organization. This position is located in Redondo Beach, CA or El Segundo, CA.
The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and collaborative/team settings across all levels. This is a dynamic and fun organization involved in deploying forward-leaning avionics, guidance, navigation, and control systems for developmental concepts for air vehicles, weapons, and many more platforms.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Support research and development of flight control algorithms for manned and unmanned air vehicles.
Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control (GNC) of autonomous unmanned aircraft.
Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities and stability margin requirements, both on ground and in flight.
Design outer and inner loop control laws, and associated logic and autonomy functions.
Develop air vehicle system linear and non-linear dynamic simulation models and integrate models into software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments.
Perform performance and flying qualities analysis.
Support non-linear simulation and hardware-in-the-loop lab testing.
Support flight test activities and analyze air vehicle flight test data.
This requisition may be filled at either a Principal or Sr. Principal Guidance Navigation Controls Engineer level.
Basic Qualifications for Principal Guidance Navigation Controls Engineer:
Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 5 years of experience OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with a minimum of 3 years of experience OR PhD in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with a minimum of 1 years of experience.
Excellent communication, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
A current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
Working knowledge of 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.
Working knowledge of autopilot functions.
Working knowledge of outer loop control law performance requirements.
Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.
Working knowledge of autopilot functions.
Working knowledge of logic, modes, and states for autonomous aircraft.
Familiarity with C/C++ programming.
Familiarity with Python programming.
Must have a current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Guidance Navigation Controls Engineer:
Sr. Principal Engineer Guidance Navigation and Controls: Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 8 years of experience OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with a minimum of 6 years of experience OR PhD in a STEM discipline with a minimum of 4 years of experience.
Excellent communication, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
A current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
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 designing autopilot functions.
Experience with logic, modes, and states for autonomous aircraft.
Experience with C/C++ programming.
Experience with Python programming.
Must have a current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with crewed/uncrewed teaming algorithms such as performing a Combat Air Patrol (CAP), formation flight, Hold patterns.
Experience with in-flight routing behaviors for Sense and Avoid, and 4D keep out/keep in zones
Experience with autonomy algorithms (Autonomous Taxi/ Take Off and Landing, etc.) for driving control laws.
Experience with Lua Script programming.
Working knowledge of SAE-94910 performance requirements.