Control Systems Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer (Associate, Mid-level, or Lead)

Control Systems Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer (Associate, Mid-level, or Lead)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000438863

Date Posted:

2024-12-17

Location:

USA - Seal Beach, CA

Job Description Qualifications:

Position Overview:

Boeing Defense Space & Security is seeking a Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) Engineer to join our Experimental Systems Group (ESG) located in Seal Beach, CA. ESG supports a variety of government customers spanning technology domains, and is an extremely fast-paced, responsive development environment specializing in delivering new capabilities to customers rapidly and affordably. The ESG portfolio consists of a range of platforms and technologies including the X-37B, the world’s first fully autonomous reusable spaceplane.

As a member of our GN&C team, you will join a highly experienced and mission-focused team of engineers specializing in hypersonic re-entry and aircraft GN&C. We work closely with Business Development teams and our customers. We rapidly prototype new concepts then deploy and iterate our designs and systems. As an engineer working in this area you will typically be engaged across multiple projects and involved in simulation development, system analysis, GN&C requirements and software development, integration, operational concept development, and flight test in both atmospheric and space environments. Our development timelines are aggressive and you will be asked to develop solutions to previously unsolved problems.

An ideal candidate has a strong technical background in atmospheric aerodynamics and guidance, solid fundamentals in linear algebra, experience with simulation and mathematical modeling, is comfortable with MATLAB and Simulink, and has experience with C/C++ or is generally proficient in programming languages. You will need to be able to work effectively in broad, minimally-defined design spaces.

Position Responsibilities:

• Apply aerodynamics, atmospheric flight mechanics, and controls knowledge to support the design of re-entry guidance and navigation functions

• Gathers, defines and documents system level requirements to support re-entry mission and trajectory requirements

• Performs and documents design and analysis of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) models and tools

• Develop and maintain 6-DOF spacecraft dynamics sim and associated analysis tools

• Implement, test, and verify the performance of spacecraft GN&C flight software

• Support troubleshooting of routine operational anomalies, functional tests and service incidents

• Support technology integration for and development of first-of-kind vehicles and missions

• Support the development of missions in new business areas

• Be a self-starter that independently identifies and diagnoses problems and inefficiencies and creates fixes and tools that addresses them

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.

This position requires a current Tier 5 (T5), formerly known as a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) (U.S. Citizenship required) or requires candidate agreed to enter a Continuous Evaluation program.     

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science

• Experience with aerodynamics and flight mechanics

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 3+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• 5+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience for the more senior positions

• Experience with aerodynamics and flight mechanics

• 1+ years of experience using MATLAB or Simulink

• Experience operating in aerospace environments

• Experience working with classical and modern control theory/design/analysis

• Experience working with navigation controls (Kalman filters, GPS/INS, air data)