Position Title: Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer Position Type: Full-Time, On-Site Location: Huntsville, AL Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. Government Security Clearance
Waypoint’s client is seeking two experienced Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineers to support an on-site missile and weapon systems program for a defense customer. The engineers will develop and assess guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion solutions from early analysis through integration and test.
Responsibilities:
Develop, analyze, and mature guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion algorithms for missile and weapon system applications.
Design and tune Kalman filter-based estimators, including extended or unscented approaches where appropriate to the solution.
Develop and evaluate flight dynamics, navigation error models, autopilot functions, guidance laws, and control-system performance.
Use MATLAB and Simulink for trade studies, sensitivity analyses, Monte Carlo assessments, and requirements verification.
Integrate algorithms with six-degree-of-freedom and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
Analyze system performance, document recommendations, and support technical reviews.
Establish GNC architecture, lead trades, mentor engineers, and coordinate across systems, software, algorithms, modeling, hardware, and test teams.
Required:
At least 8 years of relevant GNC, estimation, controls, navigation, or flight dynamics experience.
Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a closely related technical discipline.
Strong foundation in dynamics, control theory, state estimation, numerical methods, and linear algebra.
Hands-on experience developing and evaluating algorithms in MATLAB and/or Simulink.
Experience analyzing time-domain and frequency-domain performance and communicating conclusions through technical documentation and reviews.
U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance if required by the program; an active clearance is not required at hire.
Desired:
Direct missile, interceptor, guided weapon, flight control, or aerospace GNC experience.
Experience with Kalman filtering, inertial navigation, GPS-aided navigation, sensor fusion, target-state estimation, or tracking.
Experience with six-degree-of-freedom simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, flight envelopes, and performance requirements allocation.
Working knowledge of C/C++, Python, embedded implementation, or automatic code-generation workflows.
Experience integrating radar, electro-optical/infrared, inertial, GPS, or other sensor data into a navigation or guidance solution.
Experience supporting software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, ground test, flight test, or post-test data analysis.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Huntsville, Alabama
Skills
Aerospace Engineeringunmatched
Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
Algorithmsunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
C Programming Languageunmatched
C++ Programming Languageunmatched
Data Analysisunmatched
Electrical Engineeringunmatched
Embedded Systemsunmatched
Flight Navigationunmatched
GPS (Global Positioning System)unmatched
Hardware Quality Assuranceunmatched
IR (Infrared)unmatched
Integration Testingunmatched
Kalman Filterunmatched
Linear Algebraunmatched
MATLABunmatched
Mathematicsunmatched
Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Monte Carlo Methodunmatched
Navigation Solution (NAVSOL)unmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Physicsunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Requirements Validation/Verificationunmatched
Security Clearanceunmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Support Documentationunmatched
Systems Analysisunmatched
Technical Supportunmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Test Dataunmatched
Trade Studiesunmatched
United States Citizenunmatched
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