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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 NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).
We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support the design and development of the SLS rocket in the Control Systems Design and Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Controls, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Senior 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:
Model, develop, simulate, and analyze launch vehicle and spacecraft dynamics (including aerodynamics, flexible body, slosh, actuators, etc.), control systems, performance, and stability in both the frequency and time domains with varying levels of fidelity
Resolve complex problems pertaining to the design, development, analysis, integration, evaluation, testing, and verification of control systems and 6-DoF models and simulations.
Conduct verification and validation of launch vehicle and/or spacecraft.
Develop, modify, maintain, and improve software simulations, tools, and scripts.
Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DoF Monte Carlo simulations.
Conduct trades studies and/or sensitivity analyses related to launch vehicles and spacecraft.
Create, edit, and debug software written in MATLAB, Simulink, and C/C++.
Prepare and present technical reports and/or briefings including visualization of results.
Create and review engineering and software documentation.
Qualifications
A degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field from an ABET accredited institution is required. Typical experience requirements are the equivalent of a PhD with at least 4 years of experience, a master’s with at least 8 years of experience, or BS with at least 10 years of experience.
Required skills/experience:
Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of launch vehicles and spacecraft in the time including using parametric, Monte Carlo, and statistical techniques.
Experience analyzing control stability in the frequency domain (Nichols, Bode, Nyquist, Root Locus, etc.).
Experience designing and developing flight control systems (PID, state space, etc.) and actuator allocation (manual jet selection, pseudo inverse, etc.) including Thrust Vector Control (TVC) and/or Reaction Control System (RCS)/Phase plane.
Experience modeling one or more spacecraft components/subsystems including actuators, TVC, RCS thrusters, slosh, pogo, rigid and/or flexible body dynamics, and/or…