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Northrop Grumman Australia · 6 hours ago

Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace company that offers revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer to lead the development and integration of advanced navigation and control systems into their vehicle management systems.

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Responsibilities

Lead the Guidance, Navigation, and Control system engineering requirement maturation
Lead the integration of autopilot and auto throttle capabilities into the Vehicle Management System
Lead subsystem level certification activities

Qualification

Guidance Navigation ControlFixed-wing aircraft dynamicsFly-by-wire control systemsSystem engineeringMATLABSimulinkModel Based System EngineeringC/C++PythonCertification test proceduresAutopilot capabilitiesFlight Management SystemsCAMEOSystem ComposerMIL-STD-1797BAS94900DO-178CAtlassian tools

Required

Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 8 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 6 years of relevant experience
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company
Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft dynamics
Knowledge of fly-by-wire control systems
Experience in system engineering requirement definition, verification, and validation
Experience analyzing non-linear simulations of aircraft closed-loop responses
Experience creating certification test procedures and test cases
Working knowledge of autopilot and autothrottle capabilities into Vehicle Management Systems
Working knowledge of Flight Management Systems, including RNAV
Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data
Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems
Experience using Model Based System Engineering tools
Familiarity with programming (C/C++, Python)

Preferred

Experience developing and integrating autopilot and autothrottle capabilities into Vehicle Management Systems
Experience with Flight Management Systems, including RNAV
Experience using CAMEO to create system requirement models
Experience using System Composer to create software architecture
Experience with MIL-STD-1797B
Experience with AS94900 or MIL-STD-9490
Experience with DO-178C
Experience for Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

Benefits

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Company

Northrop Grumman Australia

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Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
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