Guidance, Navigation and Controls Engineer (Grand Prairie, TX)

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Lancaster
Posted on: November 23, 2021

Job Description:

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

As directed by Executive Order 14042: Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, all current and newly hired employees, in the United States, are required to be fully vaccinated by January 18, 2022.
Description:Lockheed Martin is seeking a Guidance & Control Engineer for a position in Grand Prairie, TX working with advanced missile systems.

Typical duties include:
- Data analysis of simulation, lab test, and flight test data to verify correct operation of ground system/fire control functions and algorithms.

- Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests 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.

Relocation:
Relocation assistance is possible for this exciting position.

The Locale:
Grand Prairie is part of the -Mid-Cities- region in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex which is in the North Central region of Texas. Grand Prairie is a suburb of both Dallas and Fort Worth. The region offers a great cost of living combined with a robust economy and a pleasant climate. This North Central region of Texas is a great place to live and to raise a family. The region is home to numerous colleges and universities to include University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at Arlington, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and Texas Woman's University. The Mid-Cities is the suburban region filling the thirty-mile span between Dallas and Fort Worth. These communities include the cities of Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyville, HEB (Hurst, Euless and Bedford), NRH (North Richland Hills and Richland Hills), Haltom City, Watauga, and Keller, along with multiple other smaller towns such as Trophy Club and Roanoke and together represent more people than either Dallas or Fort Worth.





MFCE&T GNC
Basic Qualifications:
- Must currently posses a SECRET security clearance.

- Experience with the Fortran programming language in a Unix/Linux computing environment.
Desired Skills:
- Strong analytical skills of large data sets.

Experience with the following:

- Controls feedback and regulation.

- Statistical processes.

- Kalman filtering.

Familiarity with shell scripting is desired. PAC-3 simulation experience is a significant plus.

Experience with the following:

- Developing algorithms for fire control or missile systems.

- Data analysis of simulation, lab test, and flight test data to verify correct operation of ground system/fire control functions and algorithms.

- MATLAB or similar Mathematical Computation platform.

- Fire control system concepts.

- Computer environments and languages, to include FORTRAN, Ada, UNIX and/or C++.

- Modular software architectures.

- Ground system/fire control theory and operation.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
job.Qualifications

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Experienced Professional

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