Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals in Melbourne, Florida.

Responsibilities may include:

• Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform GNC of manned aircraft

• Develop control laws to meet air vehicle performance, flying qualities and stability margin requirements, both on-ground and in-flight

• Develop system and software requirements for GNC features and support requirement verification through test procedure development, lab testing and reporting

• Design pilot relief autopilot and associated logic functions

• Develop air vehicle system linear and non-linear dynamic simulation models and integrate models into software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments

• Define and execute performance and flying qualities analysis

• Support pilot-in-the-loop simulation handling qualities testing

• Analyze air vehicle flight test data and support flight test activities

• Utilize excellent communication skills to report program milestones, technical approaches, and findings to GNC as well as program management

This role can be filled as a Principal Engineer (level 3) or Sr Principal Engineer (level 4) depending on the qualifications below.

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal Engineer Level: Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant engineering and/or lab experience

• Sr. Principal Engineer Level: Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 8 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 6 years of relevant experience or PhD with 4 years of relevant engineering and/or lab experience

• Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics

• Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems

• Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop dynamics

• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data

• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance prior to the commencement of employment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing control laws for piloted fixed-wing aircraft, performing handling qualities analyses, and pilot-in-loop evaluations

• Experience with control design and analysis processes including the development of the control laws, and hardware/software requirements for air vehicles

• Experience designing, developing, and implementing flight software algorithms to support GNC functions for air vehicles

• Experience designing, developing, and implementing simulation software to test and verify mission requirements for air vehicles

• Experience with navigation functions including the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality

• Experience with guidance functions including the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation, or trajectory

• Working knowledge of MIL-STD-1797 flying qualities requirements

• Experience creating and executing requirement verification test procedures

• Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems

• C/C and/or Python Programming Skills