Guidance, Navigation and Controls Engineer (Grand Prairie, TX)

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Grand Prairie
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

As directed by Executive Order 14042: Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, effective December 8, 2021, Lockheed Martin will require all newly hired employees, in the United States, must be fully vaccinated before their start date.
Description:Lockheed Martin is seeking an engineer who will conduct integrated performance analysis for a guided missile system. The candidate will utilize missile system models and simulations to produce engineering analysis data for design support, performance verification of hardware/software configurations, pre-flight analysis, and post-flight reconstruction in support of flight testing. Candidate will also support performance-related risk assessments.

The successful candidate will have good math skills, computer literacy, good communication skills, problem solving skills, and desire to be part of a team on a missile development program.

Relocation:
Relocation assistance is possible for this exciting position.

The Locale:
Grand Prairie is part of the -Mid-Cities- region in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex which is in the North Central region of Texas. Grand Prairie is a suburb of both Dallas and Fort Worth. The region offers a great cost of living combined with a robust economy and a pleasant climate. This North Central region of Texas is a great place to live and to raise a family. The region is home to numerous colleges and universities to include University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at Arlington, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and Texas Woman's University. The Mid-Cities is the suburban region filling the thirty-mile span between Dallas and Fort Worth. These communities include the cities of Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyville, HEB (Hurst, Euless and Bedford), NRH (North Richland Hills and Richland Hills), Haltom City, Watauga, and Keller, along with multiple other smaller towns such as Trophy Club and Roanoke and together represent more people than either Dallas or Fort Worth.





MFCE&T GNC
Basic Qualifications:
- Must currently posses a SECRET security clearance.

- Strong programming skills in FORTRAN, MATLAB, or C programming.
Desired Skills:
- Analysis of missile and fire control system performance against systems requirements using complex high fidelity 3-DOF & 6-DOF (Degree of Freedom) simulation(s).

- General mathematical modeling updates to 3-DOF and/ 6-DOF missile simulations as required.

- Development and maintenance of data reduction and presentation tools.

- Reduction of simulation data and development of presentations used in internal and customer briefings.

- Ability to understand and explain performance impacts at system level.

- Prior experience with MFOM (Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions) or similar Surface to Surface missile systems.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Experienced Professional

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