GNC Engineer

Job Description
What's it like working for a company knowing that what you do protects what really matters and makes a difference in people's lives? Inspiring.

At BAE Systems, we believe in work-life balance, and this position works a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. BAE Systems is looking for an experienced Guidance, Navigation and Controls Engineer to work on a team of GNC Engineers solving complex problems and bringing new technologies to market.

This is a technical position performing guidance, navigation and control algorithm design and assessment for precision guided munition systems from concept to deployment who also project managers the scope of work and budget and helping keep the project staffed appropriately. The primary focus of this position is keeping technical projects on track. The Guidance, Navigation and Control Group is responsible for all requirements, trade studies, algorithm designs and performance assessments required to develop products that navigate, guide and fly precisely and accurately.

In this position, you will:

• Design, evaluation and optimization of aided navigation systems, target track filters, mid-course and terminal guidance algorithms
• Assessment and integration of strapdown seekers, GPS receivers, radar data, and inertial measurement units
• Flight test support, data reduction and verification
• Use Kalman filtering, and other estimation techniques, to provided aided navigation solutions, target state estimates and other observers for guided flight
• Apply digital signal processing techniques and navigation system error assessments to verify sensor and filter performance
• Generate preflight performance predictions and adjust based on post flight reconstruction and evaluation
• Develop, modify, and maintain software tools to include evaluation of nominal and Monte Carlo flight conditions at various levels of modeling fidelity
• Prepare presentations, reports, research, and other contract artifacts related to designs, evaluations, and tests performed

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Typically a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or Applied Mathematics or Applied Physics and 8+ years of experience in Guidance, Navigation or Controls theory, test and evaluation.
• Experience developing and verifying models in at least one area (ideally all areas) of concept flight systems and subsystems , radar systems, GPS/GNSS, launch platforms, inertial measurement units, magnetometers.
• Experience managing technical projects including staffing, schedule and budget.