GNC Flight Control Engineer

Talon is a small business staffing and engineering firm providing innovative, end-to-end, rapid turn solutions to our government and commercial clients. Founded in 2019, Talon employs over 150 Aerospace and Defense engineers and other support staff to solve problems for a variety of applications to include aircraft, ballistics, cybersecurity, motorsports, armor development, biological systems, missiles, and warheads. Talon has an office in Tucson, AZ that is providing staffing solutions, technical services support, and manufacturing to Fortune 500 companies.

Position Role Type: Hybrid, Full - time, Some travel is required

Location: Tucson, AZ with travel to SoCal

GNC Flight Control Engineer Job Description:

Talon Analytics is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals in SoCal, however will primarily be working remotely from Tucson, full-time for 6 months. Some travel is required. The GNC Flight Control Engineer will design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform GNC of manned aircraft. The Guidance, Navigation and Control Group is responsible for all requirements, trade studies, algorithm designs and performance analyses required to develop products that navigate, guide and fly precisely and accurately.

Primary Qualifications:

• Experience with navigation functions including the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality
• Experience with guidance functions including the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation, or trajectory
• Experience as a technical fellow or other technical lead within GNC work.
• Developed, tested and delivered code for a guided munition or other flight systems.
• Knowledge of designing, developing, and implementing simulation software to test and verify mission requirements for air vehicles
• C/C++ and/or Python Programming Skills
• Proficient using Simulink to model dynamic systems
• Recent task management experience in an engineering development environment (schedule and budget tracking/work package management).
• Experience as a technical fellow or other technical lead within GNC work.

Must Have Qualifications:

• Proactive, self-starting, independent, flexible engineer with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Developed and demonstrated advanced aided navigation solutions with strapdown inertial measurement units (IMU’s).
• Principal Engineer: Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant experience
• Sr Principal Engineer: BS in a STEM discipline and 9 years of relevant experience; OR MS in a STEM discipline and 7 years of relevant experience
• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance prior to the commencement of employment
• Experience developing and verifying models of concept flight systems and subsystems for Navigation, upfinding, and air data estimation solutions.
• Proficiency with modeling and simulation using Simulink and analysis and optimization in Matlab.
• Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics
• Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems

Compensation:

• Offering a competitive hourly wage
• Flexible work schedule
• Full-time schedules available
• 401K match

Talon is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.