Guidance, Navigation & Control; GNC Engineer Security Clearance

Job Title & Location

Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer – Chandler, AZ

Active DoD Secret clearance required – U.S. citizenship required.

Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform 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.

Navigation functions include the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality.

Guidance functions include the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation or orbit in space.

Control design and analysis processes consist of the development of control laws and hardware and software requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.

Work on a 6‑degree‑of‑freedom (6

DOF) simulation to design and test missile flight code.

Work with 6

DOF simulation models to evaluate system performance.

Be experienced with missile flight dynamics, autopilot and guidance design, and implementation into missile flight code.

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – or – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – or – PhD with 1 year of professional experience, or consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application.
• Experience working with missile guidance, navigation and control algorithms.
• Experience with missile simulation and flight dynamics.

• Experience designing, tuning, implementing, and testing guidance algorithms and autopilot parameters for guided missiles and/or interceptors.
• Control systems theory and flight dynamics proficiency.
• Proficiency in creating and maintaining analysis tools in C++, MATLAB and Python.
• Proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment.