Systems Engineer Flight Analyst
The Systems Engineer Flight Analyst will evaluate design information to determine the flightworthiness of these vehicles for trajectory, stability, body dynamics, and structural loads and integrity; work with mission team to design vehicle that meets mission and trajectory requirements while preserving stability, mass property, and structural margins; and perform statistical evaluation of vehicle trajectory, dispersion, and performance including Monte Carlo simulations, and Root Sum Squared (RSS) analysis. Will also assist in the development of launch commit and mission success criteria; work with flight safety organizations to ensure range containment, range safety compliance, perform debris analysis, and assist in flight termination decisions; produce flight performance analysis reports for preliminary configurations, design milestone reviews, and detailed post-flight analysis; support trajectory reconstruction, actual dynamics data analysis, and anomaly investigations; and maintain flight performance database, and actively seek trends in vehicle behavior to improve analysis capabilities.
This position is located at NGTS Facility in Princess Anne, MD.
Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering or Physics including significant coursework in at least three of the following: Dynamics, Aerodynamics, Mathematics, Simulation, Stability and Control. Other degrees considered if experience and coursework provide equivalent knowledge. Postgraduate degree highly desirable.
• Must have excellent computer, communication and problem solving skills. C and MatLab programming skills are a plus.
• Understanding and experience with the flight analysis of unguided, spin stabilized, sub-orbital sounding rocket vehicles.
• Familiarity with typical flight performance guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb.
• Experience with the analysis of flight subsystems such as fins and fin cants, rocket assisted spin-up, stage separation, mechanical de-spin, and re-entry/recovery.
• Experience with industry flight analysis software (GEM, Taos, etc.), other 6 DoF programs, CFD tools, and thermodynamics models.
• Experience with the analysis of rocket motor propulsion and performance is beneficial.
• Ability to support on-site and remote launch support to include launcher wind-weighting analysis during pre-launch and launch operations.
• Organizational and computer skills needed to establish, implement, and maintain vehicle analysis computer programs and data analysis systems.
• Ability to maintain legacy codes, to update legacy programs and to develop new analysis codes as required.
• Understanding of flight diagnostic sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, rate sensors, optical aspect sensors, GPS, etc.) and ability to analyze previous mission data to assess past performance and recommend changes to enhance performance of sensors on future missions.
Preferred Qualifications: Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 75,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce regardless of age. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
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