Modeling & Simulation Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Seeking a creative, motivated engineer to help develop simulations of US weapons, threat missiles, and submersibles. This role offers opportunities to develop groundbreaking solutions to the nation's toughest multidisciplinary problems. The group has a mix of people who explore, build, share, invent, and collaborate. Every day will bring exciting new challenges, including connecting with other teams to participate in the full pipeline of system development, from conception to integration. Responsibilities include contributing to and possibly leading technical teams to develop and modify algorithms and physics-based models implemented in dynamic simulations using MATLAB/Simulink and modern C++. The role also involves building high fidelity, six degree-of-freedom simulations and using them to analyze the performance of a variety of systems. Additionally, the engineer will work across subject areas to solve multidisciplinary problems and ensure sponsors receive the best solutions, ranging from supporting pre-design efforts to testing hardware prior to deployment.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or another related technical field with 5 years technical experience.
Capability to independently develop models, execute technical analysis, compile and validate results, and present to external sponsors.
Demonstrated ability developing physics-based models and simulations.
Significant experience with MATLAB/Simulink, Python, and/or C++.
Some background in missile flight dynamics or guidance and control.
Able to obtain an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a Secret level clearance.
U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or another related technical field.
10+ years of technical experience.
Background in researching and developing vehicle designs for multiple applications, including missiles, hypersonics, autonomous aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, and submersibles.
Ability to absorb perspectives of a sophisticated system that may be unfamiliar to you from assorted team members and form them into a cohesive system-level view.
Experience in balancing analysis fidelity to answer questions.
Depth with numerical methods to understand/bypass potential shortfalls and can choose well-suited algorithms for a given problem.
Experience developing and maintaining large software architectures.
Demonstrated experience in performing multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO).
Hold a DoD Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

Connecting with other teams to participate in the full pipeline of system development, from conception to integration.
Contributing to and possibly leading technical teams to develop and modify algorithms and physics-based models implemented in dynamic simulations using MATLAB/Simulink and modern C++.
Building high fidelity, six degree-of-freedom simulations and using them to analyze the performance of a variety of systems.
Working across subject areas to solve multidisciplinary problems and ensuring we provide our sponsors with the best solutions.
Supporting pre-design efforts to the testing of hardware prior to deployment.