Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2/3 (AHT)

About the role

The successful candidate will be driving the full cycle of mission trajectories, from taking requirements from customers, design reviews, simulation, and analysis of the mission, to running operations. They will perform tasks such as trajectory design, optimization, and dispersion analysis for Air-to-Ground and Air-to-Air missile missions for all phases of flight. They will also develop flight constants and guidance parameters, verify them via analysis to meet mission requirements subject to mission and vehicle constraints, and implement new software or algorithms to support mission unique capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop software automation tools for mission design, analysis, test, and reporting.
• Perform trade studies to improve weapon performance and reliability.
• Support full mission lifecycle, starting with sales and concluding with mission execution.
• Interact with customers to execute current missions and develop future business.

Requirements

• Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 2: Requires a minimum of 2 years with a Bachelor of Science degree in related field OR a Master’s degree with 0 years’ experience in a related field.
• Engineer Guidance Navigation Control Level 3: Requires a minimum of 5 years with a Bachelor of Science degree in related field OR a Master’s degree with 3 years’ experience in a related field.

Qualifications

• Experience with Design Guidance algorithm: Guidance Law, Trajectory Optimization, Flight Vehicle Autonomy.
• Experience with Design Navigation algorithm: Initial Alignment, Strapdown Propagation, INS filter.
• Experience with Flight Control algorithm: Trim Point Selection, LTI Trim and Maneuver Analysis, Non-linear Dynamic Analysis.
• Experience with Tracking algorithm: Angle Only Tracking, Maneuvering Target Tracking, Multi-Target Tracking, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion, Track File Manager.
• Experience architecting high-fidelity multiple degree-of-freedom flight/orbital mechanics and vehicle dynamics simulation.
• Experience with Modeling of navigation sensors in the Monte Carlo simulation.
• Experience architecting the modeling of targeting sensors in the Monte Carlo simulation.
• Evaluate simulation output versus actual targeting sensors' output.
• Experience architecting flight vehicle system conceptual designs and modeling & simulation for trade studies, initial requirements definition, and contribute to proposal efforts.
• Experience architecting propulsion systems including electric, rocket, air-breathing, and attitude control thruster.
• Evaluate simulation output versus actual test data.
• Experience architecting modeling of actuation systems as well as design of test equipment to demonstrate actuation system performance meet requirement.

Skills

• Proposal development, writing or execution.
• Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university.
• Familiarity with AGILE, MBSE, and / or system architecture frameworks.
• Effective project management skills and good communication techniques.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present and brief technical data to all levels of leadership within the organization and U.S. Government.
• Analysis of Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability, Engagement at the mission level.
• Knowledge of RF Threat Modeling.
• Knowledge of guided missile design.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes.
• CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret.
• TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time.

Pay

• Primary Level Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $137,600.00.
• Secondary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00.

Schedule

• On-site position in Northridge, CA.