GNC Engineering Asc

About the Role

Lockheed Martin is seeking an emerging authority Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer with an active Secret clearance for a position in Grand Prairie, TX working with advanced missile systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests algorithms for guidance, navigation, and control of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, and upper stages.
• Covers powered and coast phases of flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise, orbital insertion, and staging events.
• Navigation functions include statistical processing of measured data and substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality.
• Guidance functions include formulating equations and control laws to achieve desired positions in space.
• Control design and analysis processes involve developing control requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles, and/or spacecraft.
• Representative areas of responsibility include:
• Performance analysis
• Generation of error budgets
• Hardware in the loop analysis
• Simulation modeling
• Fire control algorithm development
• Engage-ability analysis
• Development and refinement of guidance laws and autopilot algorithms
• Flight test support
• Seeker algorithm and truth modeling
• Conducting trade studies

Requirements & Tech Stack

• MATLAB
• FORTRAN or C++
• 6DOF Performance simulations of aircraft and/or missile systems.
• Experience developing algorithms for guidance laws, autopilots, signal processing, and/or fire control.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or higher from an accredited college in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline.
• Must be a US citizen; this position will require a government security clearance.
• This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
• Active Secret clearance.