Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer (Senior and Lead)

Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer (Senior and Lead)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000416354

Date Posted:

2024-03-07

Location:

USA - Berkeley, MO

Job Description Qualifications:

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is hiring Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineers (Senior and Lead) to join the Flight Systems Engineering Capability team in Berkeley, MO (St. Louis region)!  These roles will support new product design, development, integration and flight test supporting the areas of guidance, modeling and simulation, flight control and subsystem control for multiple fixed wing aircraft, including T-7A and derivatives, MQ-25, F-15 EX and proprietary programs.

Flight engineers are essential to the development, safety and success of our products and solutions. Each day, they go above and beyond to meet our customers’ overall mission requirements—from initial vehicle concept definition through design, test, validation and in-service support. Your expertise in areas such as Aerodynamics; Propulsion; Guidance, Navigation & Control; and Loads & Dynamics will drive the future of aerospace.

Would you be interested in working on an aircraft carrier to support the unmanned aerial-refueling MQ-25 vehicle?  Or flight testing of prototype and production manned and unmanned vehicles?  How about creating and running state-of-the-art vehicle simulations of the T-7 Redhawk and supporting flight and ground tests to verify predicted vehicle performance?  Or working on teams developing the next generation of tactical aircraft?  This is just a small sample of the exciting things our engineers do supporting our government customers and the people of the U.S. military.

The Flight Systems Engineering Capability is an exciting organization in Boeing Defense, Space & Security responsible for performing Flight Engineering across a large portfolio of products and development programs. Product areas within the Flight Systems Capability in the St. Louis/St. Charles region include Fighter Aircraft, Unmanned Aircraft, and Missiles/Weapons Systems. The set of specialized capabilities and skills maintained by our teammates are the foundation of what defines the majority of our Boeing products; things that FLY!  The St. Louis region is continuing to grow, and Flight Engineering is looking for motivated, talented engineers to join the Boeing team on the exciting programs located in this region. Selected candidates will work a wide range of programs that will require design, analysis and testing in Flight disciplines to meet our customers' requirements. 

Join our team and become a Flight Engineer with unmatched opportunity and potential; you’ll be supported to develop and maintain specialized skills that may be applied across multiple product domains.  You’ll benefit from exposure to a variety of unique and challenging projects, and collaborate closely with other engineering disciplines and industry experts.  Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company.  We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers.  Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define Guidance, Navigation and Control mission requirements and ensure requirements traceability and quality from the system level to component level

• Use multidisciplinary model data (aero, mass properties, propulsion, etc.) to develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model

• Design flight control laws using modern linear control design techniques and tools to achieve design and performance targets

• Use advanced nonlinear analysis to assess and refine the control law design

• Perform model validation against test data to inform and improve the accuracy of the simulation environment

• Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, and signal shaping to properly bound the performance within all areas of the flight envelope

• Work with flight simulation and Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) software engineers to incorporate control laws into the operational flight program

• Support flight simulations, hardware in the loop testing, and flight testing

• Lead design reviews, analyses, simulations and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations

• Trains and coaches others.  

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

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.