Modeling and Simulation Staff Engineer (Dallas, TX)

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Grand Prairie
Posted on: November 23, 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, all current and newly hired employees, in the United States, are required to be fully vaccinated by January 18, 2022.
Description:Lockheed Martin is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer for an exciting Dallas, TX position. A missile program is looking for a high potential Modeling and Simulation Lead to take responsibility for the 6DOF and integration of sensor models for a missile Integrated Flight Simulation (IFS). Additional responsibilities will be to conduct pre-flight test predictions and post-flight test data analysis. Direct interaction with the USG customer is expected. Some domestic travel also expected.

Typical responsibilities include:
- Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests algorithms to perform guidance, navigation and control of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles and upper stages during powered and coast phases of flight, earth orbit, interplanetary cruise and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events.

- Navigation functions include the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality.

- Guidance functions include the formulation of specific equations and control laws to achieve a desired position in space.

- Control design and analyses processes consist of the development of the control requirements for aircraft, launch vehicles and/or spacecraft.

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.




Basic Qualifications:
- Must currently possess a SECRET security clearance or greater.

Experience with the following:

- Modeling and simulation tasks for hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL), and/or 6DOF Integrated Flight simulations (IFS).

- Modeling and simulation tasks for system survivability, Safety of Flight (SOF), and/or end-to-end battle management systems (BMS).

- Integrating guidance, navigation and/or autopilot algorithms into a high-fidelity IFS.

- Performing trade studies and simulation analyses with the objective of enhancing and optimizing system performance capability.

- FORTRAN or C++.

- Version control tools such as Git, SVN, etc.
Desired Skills:
- Demonstrate the ability to design a high-fidelity system simulation capable of predicting system pre-deployment performance.

- Demonstrate capability with both IR and RF threat modeling.

- Demonstrate mastery of C++, MATLAB, Simulink.
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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