Guidance Navigation & Control Systems Engineer - Early Career

Description

Lockheed Martin is seeking an emerging Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer to join a highly skilled team of systems engineering technologists and algorithm developers supporting various contracts and IRADs within Missiles and Fire Control. The GNC Engineer will design, integrate, and test GNC, tracking, and/or servo control algorithm solutions for missile and fire control products, develop and verify complex models and simulations, evaluate system performance, perform studies, analyses, and test activities, support ground and flight test activities, and support program reviews.

• Design, integrate, and test GNC, tracking, and/or servo control algorithm solutions for missile and fire control products.
• Develop, verify, and validate complex models and simulations such as missile 6-degree-of-freedom simulations (6‑DOF) and effects‑based simulations.
• Evaluate system performance in complex scenarios and environments and verify system and subsystem level requirements.
• Perform critical studies, analyses, and test activities.
• Support ground and flight test efforts including Hardware‑In‑The‑Loop (HWIL) activities.
• Support program reviews and technical interchange meetings with internal leadership and/or external customers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, physics, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to perform one or more of the following GNC or modeling and simulation assignments based on completed coursework or professional experience:
  • Develop and analyze algorithms such as guidance, navigation, autopilot, inertial tracking, and servo control algorithms.
  • Develop and/or verify/validate complex vehicle models and simulations such as missile 6‑degree‑of‑freedom simulations.
  • Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following languages: C++, MATLAB, Python.
  • Demonstrate strong math skills in linear algebra, matrix math, statistics, trigonometry, and coordinate transformations.
• Must be a U.S. citizen; this position requires a government security clearance. The position is located at a facility that requires special access.

• Master’s degree in a related discipline.
• Proficiency with Linux.
• Ability to perform preflight system performance assessment and post‑flight verification analyses.
• Experience designing and analyzing target tracking and terrestrial navigation systems.
• Experience with optimal state estimation filters such as extended Kalman filters (EKF).
• Demonstrated skills in probability, statistics, and Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Experience deploying algorithms that satisfy real‑time performance requirements.

Requires a government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is mandatory. Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years.

• Work is onsite full‑time at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
• Schedule:
  
  4 × 10‑hour days, three days off per week.
• Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL.
• Career Area:
  Guidance, Navigation and Control.
• Type:
  Full‑time.
• Shift: First.
• Experience Level: 4 years and up, college graduate.
• Relocation:
  Possible.

Lockheed Martin is an equal‑opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.