Engineer IV

Job Summary

General Atomics (GA), and its affiliated companies, is one of the world's leading resources for high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely piloted aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is a supplier of advanced electromagnetic systems, related power equipment and other high technology products for a variety of government and commercial applications. These include products such as the design and fabrication of linear motors, superconducting and conventional rotating motors, power inverters, high-energy capacitors, radiation monitoring systems, high-voltage direct current power distribution systems, and numerous other products.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Aerospace Systems Engineering Department for a Flight Simulation Engineer. This full-time position is located at our Huntsville, AL site and directly supports the System Simulation & Analysis and Guidance, Navigation, and Control teams by providing technical expertise for development and configuration management of analysis tools for a variety of space and weapon system development projects.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the aerospace systems engineering organization by developing and configuration managing flight simulations and other analysis tools.
• Support development of new weapon systems particularly gun-launched projectiles and guided missiles and/or satellites.
• Support real-time simulation development and Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing.
• Performs upgrades to simulation and analysis tools with special focus on maintaining analyst useability and tool flexibility.
• Support peer reviews of simulation models, analysis tools, and other software modules as required.
• Develop and implement simulation software unit tests and other automated test scripts as required.
• Develop simulation tool and software documentation using company guidelines and best industry practices.
• Support post-processing and analysis of data collected from ground and flight tests, simulation-based performance assessments, and other sources.
• Develop briefing materials for design reviews.
• Facilitate rapid resolution of delays that impact simulation and analysis tasks including real-time, thorough communication with task leads, program management and other leadership is required.
• Collaborate daily with GA and customer engineering and program management teams.
• Support development of simulation and analysis related data deliverables.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Travel expectations: