Sr. Guidance, Navigation & Control; GNC Engineer Security Clearance

Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer - TS

Location:

Chandler, AZ

Clearance:
Active DoD Top Secret Clearance required (TS/SCI with Poly eligible) – U.S. Citizenship Required

• Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms and software and simulation tools for guidance, navigation, and control of aircraft, spacecraft, submersibles, surface ships, missiles, launch vehicles, and upper stages during powered and coast phases of launch, flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise, and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events.
• Perform normal navigation functions, including statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality.
• Formulate specific equations to achieve desired position, orientation or orbit in space (guidance functions).
• Develop control laws and hardware and software requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles, and/or spacecraft.
• Design and test high‑quality software and simulation tool chains, including 6‑DOF simulation for missile flight code.
• Create and implement 6‑DOF simulation models to evaluate system performance.
• Perform mission analysis on flight test and tactical systems, and possess knowledge of missile flight dynamics.
• Implement missile autopilot, navigation and guidance schemes.
• Mentor and train early‑career engineers on the team.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university.
• Required experience:
  
  5 years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 3 years of experience, or a PhD with 0 years of experience.
• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application.
• Expertise in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) engineering.
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing flight control algorithms.
• Experience working in a high‑fidelity 6‑DOF modeling and simulation environment.
• Proficiency in C++ programming, Linux environment, MATLAB, and Python.

• Experience working with GNC systems on missiles.
• Proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and Python tool chains.
• Master’s or PhD degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university.