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Guidance Navigation & Control Engineer (Experienced, Lead, Senior)

Boeing

Senior

$182,750 – $247,250

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What this role is

Boeing's Experimental Systems Group is seeking guidance, navigation, and control engineers to develop algorithms and flight software for advanced spacecraft and hypersonic vehicles, including the X-37B spaceplane. This role suits experienced engineers with backgrounds in aerospace systems who want to work on cutting-edge autonomous platforms from prototype through flight test.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 5+ years of related work experience or equivalent education combination
  • Engineering experience with aircraft, missile, spacecraft, or autonomous vehicles
  • Proficiency with MATLAB and Simulink
  • Proficiency developing GN&C algorithms, models, and simulations
  • Experience developing with C/C++, Python, or C#
  • U.S. citizenship to obtain required security clearance
  • Ability to obtain Tier 5 security clearance

Nice to have

  • Master's or PhD in aerospace or aeronautical engineering
  • 10+ years related technical experience
  • Active Tier 5 clearance already held
  • Experience with spacecraft operations or space environment effects
  • Hypersonic re-entry GN&C experience
  • Knowledge of classical and modern control theory and nonlinear control design
  • Model-based development experience
  • Flight test support background
  • Prior work on space or hypersonic programs

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