Controls, Modeling, and Simulation Engineer

Amentum•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Your growth matters to us—that’s why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, mentoring, and company sponsored networking events, you can take control of your own career path on your own terms with a company that believes in you. People are at the heart of our business. We reflect a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. We expect our people, clients, and partners to treat one another with dignity and respect. Our comprehensive benefits package includes wellness programs, paid holidays, paid time off, employee perks and much more. With these benefits, plus the option for flexible schedules, we’ll support you as you pursue a balanced, fulfilling life—at work and at home. Our team is comprised of 10 companies working together on one mission, Moon to Mars and then beyond. The Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for projects ranging from CubeSats to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support the Space Launch Systems Program in the Control Systems Design and Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Dynamics, Controls, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Engineer. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

Requirements

A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field from an ABET accredited institution is required.
Typical experience requirements are the equivalent of a PhD, a master’s with at least 3 years of experience, or BS with at least 5 years of experience.
Ability to work problems from first principles, including derivation of dynamics equations of motion, including both nonlinear equations and linear state equations
Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of launch vehicles and spacecraft in the time domain
Familiarity with and an understanding of trajectory and orbital dynamics
Experience analyzing control systems in the frequency domain
Modeling of spacecraft components/subsystems such as: Thrust Vector Control (TVC) actuators, Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters, slosh, pogo, rigid and/or flexible body dynamics.
Programming in MATLAB, Simulink, Python, and C/C++. This includes debugging and improving the efficiency of simulation tools.
Experience performing software development, verification, and validation.
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.
Proof of US Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity and/or experience with updating, documenting, or maintaining the ARTEMIS Download And Processing Tool (ADAPT) and/or using the tool to process Avionics systems runs.
Demonstrated ability to design flight control systems (PID, state space, etc.) and perform actuator allocation (manual jet selection, quadratic programming, pseudo inverse, etc.)
Experience performing trade studies, sensitivity, and/or Monte Carlo simulation and analyses related to the control of launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.
Programming in other languages such as Simscape Multi-body.
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.

Responsibilities

Conduct verification and validation of launch vehicles and spacecraft against software and Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) simulations using the ARTEMIS Download And Processing Tool.
Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicles and spacecraft and control system performance and stability.
Resolve 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.
Create, edit, and debug software written in MATLAB, Simulink, C/C++, and Python
Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DoF Monte Carlo simulations.
Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft control.
Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings including visualization of results.
Create and review engineering and software documentation.