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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Principal Guidance Navigation Control Engineer

Flight Dynamics & GNCUpdated on Nov 2
Full-timeManhattan Beach, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have 5 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in STEM Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or Applied Mathematics or a related field; 3 years with a Master's degree; or 1 year with a PhD.
  • Be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Department of Defense security clearance within a reasonable period.
  • Have experience with ICBMs and one or more of orbital mechanics, launch vehicle dynamics, or numerical methods.
  • Have experience developing, analyzing, and maintaining 3DOF or 6DOF simulations and simulation architecture.
  • Have experience with FORTRAN, C++, Python, or similar languages.
  • Have experience with software system requirements and testing.
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Have excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and sustain the ICBM Minuteman III Operational Targeting Program.
  • Participate in a multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, physicists, software engineers, and systems engineers.
  • Participate and contribute to peer and code reviews, critical milestone reviews, and technical interchange meetings.
  • Verify and validate targeting software requirements through the systems engineering V process.
  • Develop software test plans, software test descriptions, and software test reports.
  • Develop and maintain 3 DOF and 6DOF missile simulations to test and analyze ICBM system performance.
  • Collaborate with the customer, internal Northrop Grumman sites, and other disciplines.

Desired Qualifications

  • Have a Master's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or physics.
  • Hold an active Department of Defense Secret or higher clearance.
  • Have experience in the full software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, coding, testing, and sell-off.
  • Have experience with VAX 3185 and/or vtVAX systems.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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