Guidance, Navigation & Controls Staff Engineer (Huntsville, AL)

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Huntsville
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 looking for a PAC-3 subject matter expert to serve as Missile and Fire Control's liaison in Huntsville, AL. Candidate will serve as the local interface for matters of PAC-3 Fire Control, Missile Software, and performance for the THAAD-MSE Integration program and assist with other PAC-3 programs as necessary.

The candidate will support:
- Systems Engineering Working Groups for the THAAD WSEIT for integration of PAC-3 MSE into THAAD.

- Integration of the missile segment simulation and software products with the THAAD Weapon System Test environment.

- Huntsville-based representative of the TMI Program Management Team for internal Lockheed Martin and external customer interactions.

- The TMI Chief Engineer for engineering matters related to the TMI Program.

Typical duties include:
- 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.





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Basic Qualifications:
- Must currently posses a DOD Secret security clearance or greater.

- Must be willing to travel to MFC in Dallas, TX on a recurring basis.

Experience with the following:
- MATLAB and 6DOF simulations.

- One or more Air and Missile Defense systems.

- In the areas of missile algorithms and fire control for Air and Missile Defense systems.

- Defense Acquisition Development Cycle.
Desired Skills:
- Ability to work independently apart from the primary team.

Experience with the following:
- PAC-3 MSE missile and fire control algorithm development and integration.

- MATLAB, Linux, FORTRAN and C++ programming.

- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation testing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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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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