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Senior Principal Engineer / Staff GNC Engineer

Northrop Grumman

$118,600 - $221,500
Sep 20, 2025
Chandler, AZ, USA
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Northrop Grumman is looking to design, develop, implement, verify, and test high-quality software and simulation toolchains for missile flight code using a 6 degree of freedom (6DOF) simulation.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, tuning, implementing, and testing guidance algorithms and autopilot parameters for guided missiles and/or interceptors.
  • Extensive control systems theory and flight dynamics experience
  • Proficiency in creating and maintaining analysis tools in C++, MATLAB and Python
  • Proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment
  • Proficiency in MATLAB and Python toolchains
  • Experience working with GNC algorithms for hypersonic missiles
  • Experience with AEGIS weapon system

Responsibilities

  • design, develop, implement, verify, and test high-quality software and simulation toolchains
  • working on a 6 degree of freedom (6DOF) simulation to design and test missile flight code
  • creating and implementing 6DoF simulation models to evaluate system performance
  • designing, tuning, implementing, and testing guidance algorithms and autopilot parameters for guided missiles and/or interceptors
  • creating and maintaining analysis tools in C++, MATLAB and Python
  • C++ development in a Linux environment
  • MATLAB and Python toolchains

Other

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • Secret clearance
  • Travel 10% of the Time
  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.