Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer (Experienced or Senior)

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Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s Air Dominance division is hiring Experienced or Senior level 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.

Responsibilities

• Define 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 various software languages (C, C++, FORTRAN, Python, etc.) to develop, implement, integrate, and test vehicle models and controllers.
• Design flight control laws using modern linear control design techniques and tools to achieve design and performance targets.
• Use 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 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.
• Support flight simulations including desktop, software, and real-time simulations.
• Support hardware in the loop development and testing.
• Support flight testing planning and execution.
• Lead design reviews, analyses, simulations, and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations.
• Train and coach others.

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.
• 5+ years of work-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of work-related experience and technical education.
• 3+ years of experience with Guidance Navigation and Control engineering.
• Experience using Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX to model systems.

Qualifications

• (Level 4) 9+ years of work-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of work-related experience and technical education.
• 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.

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: Qualified student loan debt payments count toward 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 providing paid and unpaid time away from work.

Pay

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

• Level 3: $115,600 – $156,400
• Level 4: $142,800 - $193,200

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility and requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance, for which U.S. Citizenship is required. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance post-start is required. This position is for 1st shift.