Sr. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL

Clearance: Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

CODE Plus, Inc., an IT government contractor, located in Fairfax, VA with offices in Huntsville, AL and Oak Ridge, TN have been in business for 29 years and have been servicing different agencies within the Federal sector.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and/or oversee the development, verification, and validation of launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander control systems.
•  Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle, spacecraft, and lander dynamics and control system performance and stability.
• Resolve complex problems pertaining to the design, development, analysis, integration, evaluation, testing, and verification of control systems and 6-DoF models and simulations.
• Develop, modify, maintain, and improve software simulations, tools, and scripts. Periodically analyze HLS partner’ flight data and present findings to NASA management.
• Create, edit, and debug software written in MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape. Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DoF Monte Carlo simulations.
• Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft control.
• Mentor junior engineers in conducting control system modeling, simulation, and analysis.
• Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings including visualization of results.
• Create and review engineering and software documentation

Required:

• Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and landers in the time domain using parametric, Monte Carlo, and statistical techniques.
• Modeling of spacecraft components/subsystems including Thrust Vector Control (TVC) actuators, Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters, slosh, pogo, rigid and/or flexible body dynamics, and/or sensors.
• Programming in MATLAB, Simulink, and C/C++. This includes debugging and improving the efficiency of simulation tools.
•  Experience performing software development, verification, and validation. Experience performing trade studies, sensitivity, and/or Monte Carlo simulation and analyses related to the control of launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.
• Must be detail oriented and self-motivated that can work independently taking projects from start to finish without much oversight.
• Must also be able to work collaboratively with other team members both locally and remote at other facilities or vendors.
• Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Experience leading and/or mentoring junior engineers.

Desired:

• Analyzing launch vehicle and/or lander system performance in the frequency domain (Nichols, Bode, Nyquist, Root Locus, etc.).
• Design and development of flight control systems (PID, state space, etc.) and actuator allocation (manual jet selection, quadratic programming, pseudo inverse, etc.) including TVC and RCS/Phase plane.
• Experience with modeling, simulation, and analysis of spacecraft rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking and/or landers.
• Ability to derive multi-body spacecraft dynamics equations of motion, including both nonlinear equations and linear state equations and integrate subsystem models into larger simulations.
• Programming in other languages such as Python, Simscape Multi-body.
• Familiarity with and an understanding of trajectory and orbital dynamics.
• Experience with creating animations/visualization from results of 3-DoF/6-DoF simulations using tools such as Unreal Engine, Satellite Tool Kit (STK), etc. Model based design experience.

Education: A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field is required. Degree from an ABET accredited institution is preferred. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D. with a minimum 19 years of experience; Masters with at least 23 years of experience, or a BS with at least 25 years of experience.

Certification:

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME TO: JOBS@CODEPLUS.COM

ADA: CODE Plus, Inc., will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. 

EEO/AA:  CODE Plus, Inc., does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.