Controls and Simulation Engineer Level 3/4
Northrop Grumman
Sunnyvale, CA0–7 yrs32m agovia LinkedIn
Posted 13 Nov 2026, 06:43 ET
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 7 years · Bachelor's degree or Master's degree
- Must know
- MATLABFEA
- Work
- On-site in Sunnyvale
- Bond
- Required, length not stated
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- MATLAB16%FEA5%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 13, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Systems Controls and Simulation Engineer Level 3 or 4 for the development and ongoing support of new and existing turbine generators used in surface ship and submarine propulsion and power generation systems for the US Navy.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyzing control system performance and requirements using systems models.
- Modeling dynamic multi-physics systems from first principles (mechanical, electrical, magnetic).
- Using model reduction methods to simplify systems for control design.
- Performing linear systems analysis.
- Performing stability analysis.
- Building and parameterizing uncertainty models.
- Developing nonlinear simulation models.
- Documenting work to share with the engineering community and customer.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- US Citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret Clearance.
- Proficiency with MATLAB coding and Simulink modeling.
- Experience in frequency domain analysis.
- Experience characterizing and analyzing system stability.
- Experience with block diagrams and linear algebra.
- Experience with grey-box model validation.
- Experience building state space models of multiphysical systems.
- Experience with numerical methods for solving differential equations.
- Must be onsite 4 days a week.
Qualifications
Level 3
- Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline with 5 years relevant work experience; OR
- Master's Degree in STEM with 3 years relevant experience; OR
- Ph.D in STEM with 0 years of relevant work experience.
Level 4
- Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline with 8 years relevant work experience; OR
- Master's Degree in STEM with 6 years relevant experience; OR
- Ph.D in STEM with 3 years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active US Government Secret clearance.
- Master's degree or higher in Aerospace, Mechanical, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Controller tuning experience on real machines.
- Experience with ModelCenter Integrate and Explore.
- Familiar with rotordynamic analysis.
- Familiar with FEA and super elements models.
- Familiar with electromagnetics.
- Experience designing weighting functions to meet operating criteria of large, MIMO systems.
- Performing robust control design.
Relocation assistance may be available.
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time.