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Position Description:

The Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for projects ranging from CubeSats, to Mars sample return, to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).

We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support the SLS program in the Control Systems Design and Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Successful candidates will serve as a Senior Dynamics, Controls, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Engineer. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to project/program team members
  
  
• Develop, model, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle and spacecraft dynamics (including flexible body, slosh, actuators, etc.), control systems, performance, and stability in both the frequency and time domains with varying levels of fidelity
  
  
• Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft
  
  
• Create, edit, and debug software written in C/C++, Matlab, Simulink, and/or other languages
  
  
• Develop, modify, maintain, and improve software simulations, tools, and scripts
  
  
• Support the design, integration, analysis, and documentation of GN&C products
  
  
• Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings including visualization of results
  
  
• Create and review engineering and software documentation
  
  

Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or related field is required. Degree from an ABET-accredited university is preferred. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D., with a minimum 14 years of experience, Masters with at least 18 years of experience, or BS with at least 20 years of experience.

Required Skills /Experience :

• Ability to derive nonlinear and linear state equations related to dynamical systems, spacecraft, and launch vehicles and develop closed form solutions to those where appropriate
• Proficiency modeling, simulating, analyzing, and verifying/validating the performance of launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonic vehicles, sounding rockets, or spacecraft.
• Proficiency in design, development, modeling, simulation, and analysis of flight/attitude control systems using classical and/or modern control techniques. i.e. autopilot
• Proficiency analyzing system performance in the time and frequency domain including Nichols, Bode, etc. using parametric, Monte Carlo, and statistical techniques
• Ability to analyze the impacts of using thrust vector control actuators (hydraulic and/or electromechanical) or other feedback-controlled effectors including structural interactions.
• Programming in Matlab, Simulink, and/or C/C++
• Ability to utilize and work with coordinate frames, transformations, and quaternions
• Experience with advanced control techniques, including adaptive and nonlinear control design, simulation, and stability analysis.
• Familiarity with and an understanding of trajectory and orbital dynamics
• Must be detail oriented, self-motivated, and can work both independently and collaboratively
• Experience with providing technical presentations to a broad array of audiences
• Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills

Desired skills/Experience:

• Experience performing control system optimization(s)
• Modeling of aerodynamics, slosh, pogo, and other dynamics impacting vehicle stability.
• Familiarity with software development, verification, and validation.

Essential Functions

Work Environment:

General office environment (100%). Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA (<15%)

Physical Requirements:

Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%). Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings at NASA and Amentum facilities (10%).

Equipment and Machines:

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Attendance:

Normal workday is from 7:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.

Other Essential Functions:

The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%). Grooming and dress must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk/hazard to the employee or others.

Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

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