Secret-Cleared GNC Engineers – Missile Guidance & Autopilot

PGS Worldwide is seekingSecret-Cleared GNC Engineers – Missile Guidance & Autopilot in Chandler, Arizona for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. These positions will support advanced missile and interceptor development through guidance algorithm design, autopilot development, modeling, simulation, and control-system analysis.

Required Skills

• Experience designing, tuning, implementing, and testing guidance algorithms and autopilot parameters for guided missiles and/or interceptors.
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing missile autopilot systems.
• Strong understanding of missile control systems, including classical and modern control theory.
• Experience with multiple control-system architectures and linear stability analysis.
• Proficiency creating and maintaining analysis tools usingC++, MATLAB, and Python.
• Proficiency developing C++ software in a Linux environment.
• Proficiency with MATLAB and Python toolchains.
• Experience with Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) concepts and applications.
• Ability to travel approximately 10%.
• Active U.S. GovernmentSecret clearance required.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing GNC algorithms for hypersonic missile systems.
• Experience with the AEGIS weapon system.
• Experience with infrared discrimination and tracking.
• Familiarity with state-estimation and state-propagation techniques.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, implement, verify, and test guidance, navigation, and control algorithms and software.
• Develop and maintain simulation and analysis tools supporting missile and interceptor systems.
• Design and tune guidance algorithms and autopilot parameters.
• Develop and evaluate control laws for guided missile applications.
• Perform stability and performance analysis across multiple control-system architectures.
• Create and maintain analytical tools using C++, MATLAB, and Python.
• Support navigation functions involving statistical processing of measured data and state information.
• Develop guidance equations used to achieve required position, orientation, and trajectory objectives.
• Define and analyze control-system hardware and software requirements.
• Support advanced hypersonic interceptor development and related GNC analysis.

Work Schedule / Shift

• Full-time onsite in Chandler, Arizona.
• 9/80A schedule.
• Approximately 10% travel may be required.

Pay

• $115.90 per hour.

Job ID:2032

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.