Engineer II, Flight Controls - X-BAT (R4816)

3+ years of experience working flight controls / GNC on real flight vehicles.

Experience performing one or more of the following technical flight control assignments:

Vehicle Modeling and Simulation:

Demonstrated experience implementing time-accurate mathematical models of the vehicle aerodynamics, mass properties, fuel system, propulsion system, sensors, actuators into a 6DOF simulation environment.

Control Law Design:

Demonstrated experience designing inner and outer loop control laws for fixed-wing aircraft using classical or modern control techniques.

Control Allocation:

Demonstrated experience designing control allocation algorithms for over-actuated systems handling actuator saturation, rate limits, failures and degradation.

Guidance and Autonomy Integration:

Demonstrated experience designing and testing real-time trajectory generation algorithms.

Verification and Validation:

Demonstrated experience executing linear, nonlinear, and Monte Carlo Analyses in a 6DOF simulation environment.

Demonstrated experience executing sensitivity studies, worst-case disturbance analysis, and/or failure detection and accommodation studies validating control robustness against requirements.

Demonstrated experience characterizing aircraft flying qualities within a high-fidelity 6DOF Simulation framework.

Strong background in aircraft flight dynamics and 6DOF simulation

Proficiency in C++, MATLAB/Simulink, and/or Python.

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.