Advanced Programs - Systems Engineer; GN&C R10228302-2

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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.

Northrop Grumman is seeking to hire a Hypersonic Testbed Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Team Tech Lead. This position will be in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT supporting the Advanced Programs organization.

• Participate in engineering review boards, technical interchange meetings and critical milestone reviews.
• Contribute to planning, determining resource requirements and IMS development.
• Determine and report incremental performance improvements.
• Respond to analysis package requests.
• Perform trajectory assessment and flight analyses.
• Gather and analyze the mission requirements to ensure mission objectives and constraints are met.
• Collaborate with a team of GN&C engineers in an Agile environment to meet critical milestones.
• Develop and analyze GNC algorithms (Guidance, Navigation, Autopilot).
• Develop and integrate vehicle navigation algorithms into 6 degree of freedom (6dof) simulations.
• Develop, verify, and validate complex 6 degree of freedom vehicle models.
• Model missile components such has inertial measurement units (IMU) and thrust vector control (TVC) systems.
• Use C++ and MATLAB and Object-Oriented design.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, and development stages, utilizing M&S tools systems for safety and mission critical analysis.
• Work with the GN&C Flight Software Team to automatically generate code from high-level specifications or models, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.

• 12 years of experience with a Bachelors degree; 10 years of experience with a Masters degree or 8 years of experience with PhD. An additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years.
• 6 years demonstrated experience in the area of guidance, navigation, or control algorithm development and/or analysis for launch vehicles, missiles, spacecraft, and/or aircraft.
• 6 years demonstrated experience coding in a higher-level programming language (C, C++, MATLAB/Simulink, etc.).
• 4 years experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance.
• 6 years experience in developing GNC algorithms (Guidance, Navigation, Autopilot).
• 6 years experience with Agile Development with DoDAF standards and methods.

• Substantial experience in inertial navigation design for Hypersonic applications.
• PhD or Masters advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering or applicable technical discipline.
• Experience developing a strapdown inertial navigation system.
• Experience developing GPS aided GNC systems.
• Experience in covariance and CEP analysis.
• Experience with a software version control system, such as Git, Gitlabs, and/or Bitbucket.
• Extensive experience with MATLAB/Simulink.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming.
• Proficiency in technical writing and documentation.
• Knowledge of estimation and control theory, such as Kalman filtering.
• Experience with linear stability analysis to determine control system stability margins.
• Experience modeling navigation sensors, such as IMU or GPS.
• Active DoD Top Secret…