Intern - GN&C Fall Intern

Amentum•Huntsville, AL

21h•Onsite

About The Position

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 looking for a fall intern with academic or work experience in controls, 6 DOF modeling, simulation, and tool development. This position will support the Human Lander System Program (HLSP) to ensure safety and mission success in sending humans back to the Moon!

Requirements

Current enrollment in an engineering, science, technical, engineering, math, computer science, or related BS or MS degree program.
Programming in MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape Multibody, and/or C/C++
Experience preparing, presenting, and reviewing technical reports and briefings including analysis and software documentation
Must be detail oriented and self-motivated that can work independently and collaboratively
Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
Have completed sophomore year of university studies and be in good academic standing
Maintain an overall average of 3.0
Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%).
Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%).
Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%).
Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%).
Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings and test stands at NASA and Amentum facilities (10%).
Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).
The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%).
Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Academic or work experience modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of aerospace vehicles in the time domain
Experience improving analysis tools and/or controls models.
Academic work, experience, or demonstrated interest in control systems design/analysis
Analyzing systems for stability margin in the frequency domain (Nichols, Bode, Nyquist, Root Locus).
Deriving state equations related to space craft and launch vehicle systems.
Conducting design and development of flight control systems including PID control gain design, state estimation, adaptive control, neural networks, or other advanced control methods.
Conducting controls related trade, parametric, and failure analysis studies.
Implementing machine learning algorithms for controls, modeling, system identification, or other aerospace applications.
Developing GUIs in Matlab
Programming in Python
Familiar with conducting unit tests and analyses for simulation/software development, verification, and validation.
Creating visualizations in 3D tools such as Terragen, STK, or Unreal Engine.

Responsibilities

Develop, modify, and maintain software simulations, tools, and scripts
Create, edit, and debug software written in MATLAB, Simulink, and/or Simscape Multibody
Model, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle and/or spacecraft dynamics and performance
Analyze systems in the time and frequency domain
Work with GN&C leads and other engineering disciplines
Support verification and validation of technical products
Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings
Create and review engineering and software documentation