2027 Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer Intern - Redondo Beach CA
About The Position
Northrop Grumman is seeking Guidance Navigation and Control Engineers for a summer 2027 internship with its Space sector in Redondo Beach, California. The intern will join the Western Region Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering discipline and contribute to spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control work. The position involves deriving system requirements from customer and mission needs; supporting trade studies; selecting hardware and developing algorithms; modeling and simulating spacecraft dynamics; and designing, implementing, verifying, and testing algorithms, software, and simulation tools. The work supports spacecraft operations in Earth orbit, interplanetary cruise, orbital insertion, and staging events. This internship is intended for a student pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree who will remain enrolled full-time in Fall 2027. The intern must be available to work 40 hours per week for at least 10 weeks during summer 2027 and be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance and Program Special Access, subject to company requirements. U.S. citizenship is required. Relocation assistance may be available, and travel is listed as 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited college or university and remain enrolled full-time in Fall 2027.
- Major in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or another related STEM field.
- Be available to work full-time, 40 hours per week, for at least 10 weeks during summer 2027.
- Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance and Program Special Access within a reasonable period, as determined by the company; U.S. citizenship is required.
Nice To Haves
- Overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher.
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, or Python.
- Previous internship or co-op experience.
- Leadership and teamwork capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and professional, community, or extracurricular activities.
- Self-motivation, willingness to learn, and interest in working in a team environment.
Responsibilities
- Derive guidance, navigation, and control system requirements from customer and mission needs.
- Collaborate across functional teams on trade studies supporting selected approaches.
- Provide expertise in selecting sensors, actuators, and processors, and developing trackers, filters, and controllers to fulfill GNC requirements.
- Create models and simulations of system attitude, ephemeris, and line-of-sight dynamics, knowledge, and control to support analysis, verification, and flight operations.
- Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools for spacecraft GNC during Earth orbit, interplanetary cruise, orbital insertion, and staging events.
- Engineer navigation functions, including statistical processing of measured data and its use in algorithms simulating physical reality.
- Build guidance functions by formulating equations to achieve desired spacecraft position, orientation, or orbit.
- Implement control design and analysis processes, including development of control laws and spacecraft hardware and software requirements.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Training, professional development, and networking opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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