GNC Engineer, Navigation-focused

About the role

Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr., Staff, or Principal Level Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, with a focus in navigation, to participate in the development of hypersonic vehicle flight control systems.

Responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of advanced algorithms to satisfy navigation requirements
• Development of navigation models and simulations to predict navigation performance
• Perform analyses to verify algorithm designs meet requirements
• Contributions to aspects of the overall flight control system design, development, implementation, integration, and test
• Development of engineering tools, as needed, to complete the tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Vehicle Management System and GNC Leads

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with navigation system design, development and testing on aerospace systems
• Experience in Kalman filtering, Extended Kalman filtering, and other estimation techniques
• Experience implementing tightly coupled GPS aided strapdown navigation solutions
• Experience building navigators to operate in contested environments and resilience approaches
• Familiarity with inertial measurements systems and common errors, drifts, and biases
• Familiarity with Anti-Jam approaches for modern GPS receivers such as CRPAs
• Familiarity with transfer alignment approaches for missile systems on military platforms
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of flight dynamics and GPS technology
• Ability to take initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing and troubleshooting closed loop GPS simulations in HIL environments
• Fusion of multiple navigation aiding sources including non-GPS based data sources
• Experience with alternative aiding approaches for denied or degraded environments (e.g. TDOA)
• Experience implementing mitigations to electronic attack, and navigation signal spoofing in hardware and software for navigation systems
• Experience with cold start, warm start, and hot start for GPS systems
• Experience estimating wind relative angles utilizing synthetic air data and navigator states
• Experience with hypersonic or near-hypersonic missile or launch vehicle design
• Familiarity with P(Y) and M code GPS receivers and cryptographic keying of GPS receivers
• Familiarity with adjoint methods for miss distance decomposition and allocation
• Familiarity with trackers, target discrimination and classification, and aimpoint refinement
• Familiarity with collaborative navigation and targeting utilizing missile-to-missile datalinks
• Algorithm requirements development, design, implementation, test, and post-flight analysis
• Advanced degree with technical focus in GNC relevant areas
• TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills

• Proficient with Matlab and Simulink
• Proficient with revision control tools (Git, Bitbucket)
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Education & Experience

• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,200): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20-25 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience