Senior Dynamics and Controls Engineer; JR

Senior Dynamics and Controls Engineer

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JBS Solutions, Inc. is an engineering and technical logistics company in Huntsville, AL. As a company dedicated to serving the community, JBS offers the unique opportunity to enrich an underutilized area of Huntsville while growing your career through NASA and DoD contracts. From systems engineering and configuration management to technical logistics and mission operations, JBS works to solve our customers' hardest problems.

With a competitive benefits package and personable work environment, JBS Solutions is the ideal company to take your career to the next level.

JBS is excited to announce a new position. We are seeking aSenior Dynamics and Controls Engineer to join our team working on the ESSCA contract with NASA!

JBS Solutions offers a partnership in which you can grow personally and professionally within a framework of strong leadership, competitive compensation, and rewarding career paths. Come join our team and be a part of an exciting and rewarding organization!

JBS is seeking a highly qualified candidate tosupport the design, development, and oversight of the Human Lander Systems Program in the Control Systems Design and Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Dynamics, Controls, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Subject Matter Expert. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to project/program team members
• Develop and/or oversee the development, verification, and validation of launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander control systems.
• Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander dynamics and control system performance and stability.
• Resolve complex problems pertaining to the design, development, analysis, integration, evaluation, testing, and verification of control systems and 6-DoF models and simulations.
• Develop, modify, maintain, and improve software simulations, tools, and scripts.
• Periodically analyze HLS partner’ flight data and present findings to NASA management.
• Create, edit, and debug software written in MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape.
• Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DoF Monte Carlo simulations.
• Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft control.
• Mentor junior engineers in conducting control system modeling, simulation, and analysis.
• Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings including visualization of results.
• Create and review engineering and software documentation.

A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field from an ABET accredited institution is required. Typical experience requirements are the equivalent of a PhD with at least 19 years of experience, a master’s with at least 23 years of experience, or BS with at least 25 years of experience. Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Ability to work problems from first principles, including derivation of dynamics equations of motion, including both nonlinear equations and linear state equations and integrate subsystem models into larger simulations.
• Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and landers in the time domain using parametric, Monte Carlo, and statistical techniques.
• Experience analyzing control stability in the frequency domain (Nichols, Bode, Nyquist, Root Locus, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to design flight control systems (PID, state…