Associate Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer

About the Role

Boeing Defense, Space & Security's Air Dominance division is hiring Associate Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineers in Hazelwood, MO. These roles will support new product design, development, integration, and flight test for guidance, modeling and simulation, flight control, and subsystem control across the expanding Air Dominance Portfolio, including F-15, F/A-18, MQ-25, T-7A, and new proprietary air dominance programs.

Flight engineers are essential to the development, safety, and success of our products and solutions, contributing from initial vehicle concept definition through design, test, validation, and in-service support. Your expertise in Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Guidance, Navigation & Control, and Loads & Dynamics will drive the future of aerospace.

Responsibilities

• Assist in defining Guidance, Navigation, and Control mission requirements and ensure requirements traceability and quality from the system level to component level.
• Use multidisciplinary model data (aero, mass properties, propulsion, etc.) to develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model.
• Use software languages such as C, C++, FORTRAN, and Python to develop, implement, integrate, and test vehicle models and controllers.
• Support design of flight control laws using modern linear control design techniques and tools to achieve design and performance targets.
• Perform advanced nonlinear analysis to assess and refine the control law design.
• Perform model validation against test data to inform and improve the accuracy of the simulation environment.
• Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, and signal shaping to properly bound 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.
• Support flight simulations including desktop, software, and real-time simulations.
• Support hardware in the loop development and testing.
• Support flight testing planning and execution.
• Participate in design reviews, analyses, simulations, and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or non-U.S. equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• 2+ years of work-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of work-related experience and technical education.
• Experience with Guidance Navigation & Control engineering.
• Experience using Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX to model systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance or higher.
• Experience with simulation, system, and component modeling.
• Experience with implementing algorithms in real-time systems.
• Hardware in the Loop Simulator (HILS) experience.
• Prior experience in flight test support.

Additional Information

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required. This position also requires the ability to obtain program access, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship only.

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

This position is for 1st shift.

Benefits

• Best-in-class 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 10% of eligible pay and immediate 100% vesting.
• Student Loan Match: Boeing 401(k) Student Loan Match allows eligible enrolled U.S. employees to have their qualified student loan debt payments counted, along with any match-eligible contributions, for purposes of determining the Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts.
• Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs.
• Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

Pay

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $93,500 - $126,500