GNC Engineer​/Technical Lead: Nav Modeling Analysis & Sim - Level 5

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a GNC Staff Engineer/Technical Lead focused on Navigation Modeling, Analysis and Simulation located in Chandler, Arizona, you will provide technical leadership for mission-critical flight-system navigation work. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

In this role, you will serve as the technical lead for navigation modeling, analysis, simulation, and algorithm development across space-launch, target, interceptor, advanced-weapons, tactical-strike, and missile-defense applications.

You will provide technical direction for inertial, satellite-based, and integrated navigation solutions; lead performance assessment in demanding environments including low-altitude flight, high-dynamic engagements, exo-atmospheric regimes, and GPS-degraded or denied conditions; and mentor engineers across the team while partnering closely with functional management, systems, software, and program leadership.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

• Perform hands-on navigation modeling, simulation, analysis, and algorithm-development work while providing informal technical leadership, mentoring, technical reviews, and input to team capability and staffing planning.
• Lead navigation architecture, modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification across launch vehicle, target, interceptor, advanced-weapons, tactical-strike, and missile-defense applications.
• Develop and execute a technical roadmap to expand the team’s strategic-navigation capability, including identifying knowledge gaps, prioritizing modeling and analysis investments, and aligning work across programs.
• Lead modeling, simulation, performance assessment, and technical planning activities supporting Strike, GPI, and other matrixed programs.
• Own navigation performance assessment across demanding mission environments, including low-altitude flight, high-speed and high-dynamic engagements, glide-phase intercept scenarios, space and exo-atmospheric missions, and GPS-degraded or denied conditions.
• Direct development and evaluation of inertial, GPS/GNSS, and integrated multi-sensor navigation solutions, including Kalman-filter-based estimation, sensor fusion, IMU modeling, covariance analysis, and aiding-source trade studies.
• Conduct sensor performance assessments involving IMUs, GPS receivers, radar altimeters, and other navigation aiding sources, as applicable.
• Translate program and customer requirements into navigation architectures, error budgets, analysis products, verification approaches, and technical trade studies.
• Drive navigation performance,…