GNC Engineer
Integration Innovation, Inc.2 years ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$125k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, integrate, and maintain real-time 6DOF GNC simulations for missile and flight-vehicle applications in HWIL environments.
- Implement guidance, navigation, and control algorithms, missile dynamics, subsystem behavior, and engagement scenarios.
- Support hardware initialization and control, data handling, analysis, visualization, and real-time simulation execution.
- Perform engineering analysis and system-performance studies using simulation outputs.
- Build simulation execution workflows covering configuration management, automated scenario execution, data capture, and regression support.
- Create tools for scenario execution, result logging, data processing, and engineering reports and presentations.
- Work in Linux development environments, including command-line compilation, remote connectivity, and software integration.
- Collaborate with systems, software, and test teams to translate requirements into simulation capabilities and verification coverage.
- Present technical concepts, findings, and recommendations to engineering teams and customer technical working groups.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Engineering is required; aerospace engineering is preferred but not required.
- At least five years of engineering experience related to programming, simulation development, or system-performance analysis is required.
- Strong C and C++ development experience, preferably in Linux environments, is required.
- Working knowledge of real-time simulations in hardware-in-the-loop environments is required.
- Experience with engineering-analysis programming and simulation-based performance assessment is required.
- Knowledge of flight-vehicle dynamics, subsystem functions, 6DOF execution concepts, physics-based simulation, and numerical methods is required.
- Working knowledge of Linux command-line operations, compilation, and remote system connectivity is required.
- Experience with version-control tools such as Git is required.
- Experience with Common Simulation Framework, RedHawk Linux or other real-time Linux environments, MATLAB, SIMDIS, missile simulation, flight-dynamics modeling, GNC algorithm development, automated test execution, data reduction, or simulation-result visualization is preferred.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance are required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively are required.
Benefits
- The company is 100% employee-owned, giving team members an ownership stake in the business.
- The company has received ten Best Places to Work awards and emphasizes employee engagement, transparent leadership, and communication.
- The role is based within the company's engineering organization supporting national-defense missions; specific remote or hybrid arrangements are not stated.
About Integration Innovation, Inc.
Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3) provides engineering, training, cybersecurity, and modeling-and-simulation services for U.S. defense and aerospace programs and select commercial clients. The privately held, 100% employee-owned company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, supports Army aviation, C5ISR, and flight/launch training, including lab integration and interoperability testing at Redstone Arsenal. Its business model centers on government services contracts and technology development engagements.