Sr Principal/Staff Engineer Guidance Navigation Control

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 9 years of related experience or a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of experience, or a PhD and 4 years of experience
Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope
Proficiency in creating and maintaining analysis tools in C++, MATLAB and Python
Proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment
Proficiency in MATLAB and Python toolchains
Experience designing, implementing and testing guidance algorithms
Experience tuning, implementing and testing autopilot parameters for missiles
Travel 25% of the time

Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests algorithms and software and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control of aircraft, spacecraft, submersibles, surface ships, missiles, launch vehicles and upper stages during powered and coast phases of launch, flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events
The Engineer/Principal GNC Engineer will design, develop, implement, verify, and test high-quality software and simulation toolchains
The candidate will be working on a 6 degree of freedom (6DOF) simulation to design and test missile flight code
The applicant will be creating and implementing 6DoF simulation models to evaluate system performance
The candidate should be able to mentor early career engineers