Lead Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer

At Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s Air Dominance division, we deliver decisive mission advantages through cutting-edge capabilities and support design, manufacturing, and services for a broad portfolio of military aircraft. This role supports new product design, development, integration, and flight test in guidance, modeling and simulation, flight control, and subsystem control for programs including F-15, F/A-18, MQ-25, T-7A, and proprietary air dominance initiatives.

About the role

Flight engineers are essential to the development, safety, and success of our products and solutions. Each day, they go above and beyond to meet customer mission requirements—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

• 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 software languages such as C, C++, FORTRAN, and Python 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 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.
• 14+ years of work-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of work-related experience and technical education.
• 5+ years of experience with Guidance Navigation and Control engineering.
• Experience using Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX to model systems.

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.

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 the company match for the 401(k) plan.
• Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs.
• Paid and unpaid time away from work programs.

Pay

Summary pay range: $170,850 – $231,150, based on candidate experience, qualifications, market, and business considerations.

Schedule

This position is for 1st shift.

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance post-start is required, for which U.S. citizenship is necessary. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.