Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer, Associate

Lockheed Martin•Sunnyvale, CA

8d•$68,000 - $135,470•Onsite

About The Position

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours. In this role you will have the opportunity to; Design, develop, implement, verify and test algorithms to perform guidance, navigation and control of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles and upper stages during powered and coast phases of flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events. Navigation functions include the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality. Guidance functions include the formulation of specific equations and control laws to achieve a desired position in space. Control design and analyses processes consist of the development of the control requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles and/or spacecraft. The group is focused on developing low-level inner loop controllers that will reside on FPGAs (like TVC controllers, gimbal controllers, etc). Those algorithms are developed in CoreSim, in Simulink and autocoded into HDL code to reside on the FPGA.

Requirements

4 Year degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related engineering field from an accredited school.
Good communication skills.
Experience with Matlab/Simulink
Experience with programming languages such as Python, C/C++
US citizenship is required, with the ability to obtain & maintain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of classical controls such as PID controllers, stability analysis and Monte Carlo analysis
experience with 3-phase motors a major plus!

Responsibilities

Design, develop, implement, verify and test algorithms to perform guidance, navigation and control of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles and upper stages during powered and coast phases of flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events.
Navigation functions include the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality.
Guidance functions include the formulation of specific equations and control laws to achieve a desired position in space.
Control design and analyses processes consist of the development of the control requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.
The group is focused on developing low-level inner loop controllers that will reside on FPGAs (like TVC controllers, gimbal controllers, etc).
Those algorithms are developed in CoreSim, in Simulink and autocoded into HDL code to reside on the FPGA.