Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 day ago
Staff Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer
United States-Florida-Melbourne
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$153K/yr - $229K/yr
10+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, and they are seeking a Staff Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer to join their Vehicle Engineering team in Melbourne, Florida. The role involves leading the maturation of Guidance, Navigation, and Control system engineering requirements, integrating autopilot and auto throttle capabilities, and overseeing subsystem level certification activities.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
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
Required
Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 12 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 10 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
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.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase