Associate Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer

Associate Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer will support the unmanned aircraft's new product design, development, integration, and flight test with opportunities to contribute in areas of flight path definition, mission planning, inner loop flight controls, air data processing, subsystem control, redundancy and contingency management.

Requirements

• Define Guidance, Navigation, and Control mission requirements and ensure requirement quality, traceability, and verification at the system and down to the component level
• Execute design reviews, analyses, simulations and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations
• Use multidisciplinary model data (aero, mass properties, propulsion, etc.) to develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model
• Design guidance and flight control laws using modern linear control design techniques and tools to achieve design and performance targets
• Perform model validation against test data to inform and improve the accuracy of the simulation environment
• Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, redundancy management, and signal shaping to properly bound the performance within all areas of the flight envelope
• Work with flight simulation and Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) software engineers to incorporate control laws into the operational flight program
• Define, analyze, and maintain Air Data sensor processing, Computational Fluid Dynamics based source error correction, and redundancy management
• Participate in DO-178B/C related software verification activities
• Coordinate autonomous air vehicle contingency management strategy across diverse, multidisciplinary teams and manage software implementation
• Support flight simulations including desktop, software, and real time simulations
• Support hardware in the loop development and testing
• Support flight testing planning and execution

Benefits

• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Health Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Life and Disability Insurance Programs