2025 Graduate – Autonomous Systems Design Engineer: Controls, Navigation, and Simulation
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Do you enjoy solving diverse problems and applying your skills across a broad range of research and applications?
Do you have a passion for the design and simulation of innovative autonomous systems, sensors, and algorithms?
If so, the Strike Guidance, Navigation, Controls (GNC), and Seekers group is looking for newly graduating engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and scientists like you! Our group’s goal is to ensure the United States has a distinct technology advantage in autonomous systems by leading the research and development of next generation technology. We do this by providing world class design solutions with a focus on multiple areas including:
- Guidance, Navigation, and Controls
- Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
- Hardware/Software Development and Test
- Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization
We are seeking creative problem solvers to join our team in taking on a breadth of technical challenges on a variety of systems including: hypersonic missiles, submarines, cruise missiles, and autonomous flight vehicles. We are committed to developing exceptional talent and fostering a culture of innovation, and as part of our group you will have the chance to grow your expertise across these technologies.
As a member of our team you will have the opportunity to…
- Pioneer design and research in guidance, navigation, and control algorithms in support of the full lifecycle development of advanced systems.
- Develop innovative models for simulating and analyzing a variety of complex physics.
- Test the capability of software and algorithms within an embedded systems environment.
- Apply multi-disciplinary optimization techniques to early phase vehicle designs.
- Develop software to support sophisticated simulation and algorithm development.
- Collaborate with a diverse team of engineers and interact with government sponsors.
- Team up with other guidance, navigation, and control engineers, working together to analyze, design, and implement control solutions to an array of systems.
Our team works on a diverse set of subject areas that feed into the design of an autonomous system. The following sections provide some more background on those unique areas:
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- We provide world class expertise in advanced GNC algorithm research, development, and application to flight test systems.
- Skills: Guidance, inertial navigation, modern/adaptive control, classical control, optimization
Modeling and Simulation
- We develop multi-physics simulations for a broad range of concepts and to analyze multi-disciplinary design problems.
- Types of work: Multi-disciplinary vehicle design optimization and analysis, high fidelity physics-based simulation modeling, algorithm development, simulation software architecture
- Skills: Dynamics, programming/coding, algorithms, optimization.
Hardware/Software Development and Testing
- We support sensor testing and characterization in conjunction with hardware-in-the-loop analysis for prototype systems advancing towards flight tests.
- Types of work: Hardware-in-the-loop development, sensor characterization, embedded systems.
- Skills: Hardware testing, embedded systems, software
Qualifications
You meet our minimum qualifications the job if you…
- Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in an Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace or similar engineering field; Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
- Have classroom experience one or more of our core skills: guidance and controls, modeling and simulation, inertial navigation, embedded systems, software development, artificial intelligence, optimization, and dynamics.
- Are skilled in or have knowledge of coding practices in Matlab/Simulink, C++, Python, or other languages
- Are able to obtain an Interim Secret security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a Secret level clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.
- Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Note: When prompted to upload attachments, please include a copy of your college transcripts (unofficial transcripts are acceptable).
- Have professional experience developing and analyzing control/dynamical systems or sensors.
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