In anticipation of NASA awarding the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) contract in the near future, Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is seeking an Entry Level GN&C Engineer to promote HLS and other programs as part of a diverse team that develops lunar landers, other cislunar spacecraft, and a wide range of critical technologies for civil, military, and commercial space programs.

The Entry Level GN&C Engineer will promote the Dynetics Space Systems Division in the development of a human lander system and support equipment, primarily responsible for integration and qualification of GNC hardware into a seamless operational system, working with industry teammates. This position requires the ability to translate high-level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and to work with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower-level detailed requirements. Candidates will work in a team environment to promote design through product implementation and should be able to lead engineering design disposition on all documentation discrepancies.

Candidate might be tasked to travel as necessary (5-10%)

Basic Qualifications

• Candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, math, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university. Aerospace engineering degrees preferred.
• Candidates will have 0-2 years of work history with roles as detailed above with an engineering company or system integrator where design, testing, and/or modification of human rated aerospace systems GNC hardware was involved.
• Candidate will have a graduating GPA of 3.0+
• Candidate should demonstrate the ability to speak professionally and work cohesively in a team environment.

Candidates will have experience communicating within a team environment. Candidates must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.

Other Qualifications

Preferred candidates have may possess a master’s degree in engineering, physics, math or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited institution and working knowledge of the following:

• NASA or other aerospace development spaceflight projects
• Working as part of multi-company and multi-organizational development teams
• Proficiency in simulation and model development and Matlab/Simulink and/or C/C++

Preferred candidates may have knowledge working on a GN&C team for aerospace vehicle design and work history in one or more aspect of Guidance, Navigation, and Controls system design:

• Spacecraft navigation system design including knowledge and demonstrated practice in aided inertial navigation, Kalman filter development, Orbit determination, sensor Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR), covariance analysis, relative state determination, extensive experience with navigation sensors (e.g. star tracker, IMU, Lidar, optical navigation, etc…)
• Launch Vehicle or Spacecraft guidance system development including closed-loop guidance algorithm design, Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD), targeting and 3DOF trajectory optimization.
• Launch Vehicle or Spacecraft flight controls system development including flight controls system design, time domain and frequency domain modeling and simulation, linear filter development, linear stability analysis, Thrust Vector Control (TVC) actuation and dynamics, Reaction Control System design. Work history with modeling and design for flexible body and propellant slosh dynamics.
• Work history with design or selection, and qualification, of space rated IMU, GPS receivers, star trackers, accelerometers, rate gyros, magnetometers, sun sensors, Lidar.
• Knowledge overseeing vendors including budget and schedule tracking.
• Spacecraft and/or Launch Vehicle 6DOF modeling and simulation for GN&C design including detailed sensor and effector modeling, vehicle equations of motion and dynamics, Monte Carlo analysis techniques.

Security Requirements

Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance.