Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer 5 - Job ID#205250
Company: PDS Defense, Inc.
Location: Everett
Posted on: May 7, 2024
Job Description:
PDS Defense, Incis seeking a Guidance Navigation & Control
Engineer 5 in Everett, WA.The BCA Control Laws team is looking for
motivated individuals to join the team as control law engineers,
supporting various programs including other development programsThe
position offers exposure to a great variety of core GNC/Flight
Controls tasks and experiences, including interactions of the
control systems with the dynamics of the vehicle to assess factors
such as robustness and margins, control structure interaction,
performance evaluation, handling qualities, and loads in order to
validate or assess the system designThe work also includes
assisting in demonstrating compliance with applicable regulations
and specifications by executing tests, performing analysis or
simulation, and design reviews in order to deliver a compliant
product that achieves airworthiness
certificationResponsibilities:
- Gathers, defines, and documents system-level requirements to
support flight control and mission or trajectory requirements
- Performs and documents design and analysis of Guidance,
Navigation, and Control (GNC) models and tools
- Supports troubleshooting of routing operational anomalies,
functional tests, and service incidents
- Executes tests, performs analysis or simulation and design
review per FAA, MILSPEC, and NASA guidance to deliver a compliant
product
- Supports the development of solutions and disposition of issues
to ensure customer satisfaction
- Participates in new business development efforts
- Works under general supervision
- Perform frequency domain analysis in Matlab/Simulink to assess
system stability characteristics
- Perform time domain performance analysis
- Participate in the development and review of design
requirements
- Show compliance with requirements via appropriate testing and
analysis
- Develop and execute Detailed Test Procedures using flight
controls test facilities with real flight hardware and
software
- Participate in engineering development and pilot demonstrations
in the engineering flight simulators
- Develop and execute software tests to support verification and
validation activities
- Identify control law design and implementation problems
- Address in-service squawks as necessary
- Support flight testsBasic Hiring Criteria:
- Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 or more years of experience in
an engineering classification
- ABET-accredited bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering,
Computer Science, or a related Field
- Experience with System Safety Analysis including: failure modes
and effects analysis; fault tree analysis; common cause analysis,
and single & multiple failure analysis OR General familiarity with
flight control systemsDesired Qualifications:
- Master's degree with typically 7 or more years of experience in
an engineering classification or a PhD degree with typically 4 or
more years of experience in an engineering classification;
Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited
course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics,
physics or chemistry; ABET is the preferred, although not required,
accreditation standard
- Basic experience using UNIX
- Knowledge and background in classical and modern control
theory
- General knowledge of the theory of flight and aerodynamic
Keywords: PDS Defense, Inc., Seattle Hill-Silver Firs , Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer 5 - Job ID#205250, Engineering , Everett, Washington
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