GNC Engineer, Senior Staff - Orlando, FL

Lockheed Martin•Orlando, FL

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is seeking an experienced Guidance and Control (GNC) Engineer to join a highly skilled team of systems engineering technologists and algorithm developers supporting missile system and fire control system design, development, integration, and test. The GNC Engineer is responsible for the design, analysis, integration, testing, and validation of the algorithms and hardware that enable a vehicle to determine its state, plan its path, and execute it safely and accurately. This role combines control theory, aerospace dynamics, hardware modeling, simulation, and system-level architecture. The GNC Engineer ensures that an air vehicle knows its state, decides on the optimal path, and executes that path reliably through robust guidance laws, precise navigation filters, sophisticated flight-path planning, and stable autopilot/control systems, all validated through rigorous simulation and flight testing.

Requirements

BS in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, computer science, applied mathematics, or similar STEM degree
8+ years of hands‑on experience performing guidance, navigation, or flight control engineering on aerospace or missile applications
US Citizenship and an ability to attain Secret Clearance is required. An Interim Clearance is needed to start this position.
Demonstrated responsibility for the full life-cycle of GNC algorithms (concept, requirements generation, design, implementation, verification, and flight test)
Demonstrated expertise in relevant mathematical concepts like linear algebra, dynamics, coordinate frame transformations, and fundamental control theory (PI filters, Laplace transform, Fourier analysis, state-space modeling, etc.)
Demonstrated expertise in guidance law or autopilot/flight controls algorithm development, test, and verification
Demonstrated experience with SW development environments like Git using programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, C++, FORTRAN, or Ada
Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams to achieve specific work package objectives
Excellent written communication skills to include generation and presentation of verification plans, analysis reports, algorithm description documentation, other technical documents
Effective oral presentation skills for design reviews and briefings to customers, partners, and senior leadership

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in an engineering discipline with concentration in controls, flight dynamics, or guidance
Experience using a Linux-based operating system
Experience integrating and testing hardware and software in Hardware In-the-Loop (HWIL)
Experience with flight-control hardware, actuator interfaces, and inertial sensors
Use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and high‑speed data‑acquisition for timing and EMI verification
Execution of HIL/SIL campaigns and support of ground‑test and flight‑test campaigns

Responsibilities

Develop guidance law algorithms and verify their performance with high-fidelity simulation and data analysis
Create trajectory-generation tools that produce feasible, optimal paths while accommodating all vehicle hardware and dynamic limitations
Design closed-loop control laws to enable vehicle state manipulation that achieves the commanded mission; generate high fidelity simulations to verify performance
Evaluate system performance in complex scenarios and environments and verify system and subsystem level requirements
Conduct Monte‑Carlo and sensitivity analyses to quantify the impact of sensor errors, actuator degradations, and flight‑environment variations on system performance
Perform critical studies, analyses, and test activities that support ground and flight test efforts including Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) activities
Provide technical team leadership required to achieve specific work package objectives
Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and training for less‑experienced engineers
Support program reviews and technical interchange meetings with internal leadership and/or external customers