Senior Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer& Design)

Senior Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer& Design) job opportunity at Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) to support the MQ-25 Flight Engineering team in Hazelwood, MO.

Requirements

• Define Guidance, Navigation, and Control mission requirements and ensure requirement quality, traceability, and verification at the system and down to the component level
• Lead 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
• Use various software languages, C, C++, FORTRAN, Python, etc. to develop, implement, integrate, and test vehicle models, controllers, and resulting SW
• 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
• Lead or participate in DO-178B/C related software verification activities.
• Lead or coordinate autonomous air vehicle contingency management strategy across diverse, multidisciplined 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
• Train and coach others

Benefits

• 401(k) plan
• Student Loan Match
• Paid Time Off
• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts
• Life and disability insurance programs