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Experienced/Senior Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer

Salary

$115,600 - $156,400 per year

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Description

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking an Experienced/Senior Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer to join the Flight Systems Engineering Capability in Berkeley, MO. This role supports new product design, development, integration, and flight test for the T-7A Red Hawk, focusing on flight control and subsystem control.

Responsibilities:

  • Gather, define, and document Guidance, Navigation, and Control mission requirements, ensuring traceability and quality from system to component level
  • Develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model using multidisciplinary model data
  • Support design of flight control laws and tools to achieve design and performance targets
  • Assess and refine control law design using advanced analysis
  • Perform model validation against test data to improve simulation environment accuracy
  • Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, and signal shaping
  • Collaborate with flight simulation and Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) software engineers
  • Support flight simulations, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight testing
  • Participate in design reviews, analyses, simulations, and component/system testing
  • Author and maintain engineering documentation
  • Design trade studies to meet program requirements

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 9+ years of related work experience
  • Experience with system and component modeling
  • Experience implementing algorithms in real-time systems
  • Programming skills in C/C#
  • Advanced Control Systems courses
  • Experience with Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX

Benefits:

  • Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
  • Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs
  • Paid and unpaid time away from work programs

Salary Range:

  • Level 3: $115,600 - $156,400
  • Level 4: $142,800 - $193,200

Skills

Required

  • Guidance Navigation and Control
  • simulation modeling
  • flight control laws
  • control systems
  • C/C#

Nice to have

  • Matlab/Simulink
  • MatrixX
  • Advanced Control Systems
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