Flight Controls Engineer | 969520

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Our Coatesville, Pennsylvania client has a full time opportunity for a Flight Controls Engineer who  will design and develop flight or mission-critical onboard software for aircraft, helicopters, ground vehicles, vision systems, situational awareness and collision avoidance systems, see and avoid, redundancy management and Manned/UAV Guidance, Navigation, & Control (GNC) and path planning systems. The Flight Controls Engineer will participate hands-on in the full software life-cycle, from concept through implementation, integration to flight test.
 
Responsibilities:

• Define, analyze and review software requirements to customer needs and system quality and performance standards
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines in planning, design and development of systems to ensure software and hardware performance and compatibility
• Design software architecture and interfaces and implement functionality using a model-based approach
• Design and develop flight or mission-critical onboard software for manned systems
• Software verification and validation including writing Test Cases and Test Procedures
• Develop, implement, and document data and software application test plans to validate project deliverables meet quality standards
• Oversee and support processes and procedures for existing data and reporting activities to support internal and external customer deliverables. Examples of specific deliverables include but are not limited to: recurring reports and analyses; data validation and documentation
• Interface with hardware design and development
• Support oversight of suppliers who develop a subset of the embedded software or verification test cases and procedures
• Assess third party and open source software which potentially augments existing client flight control capabilities
• Typical software functionality for a manned aerospace includes guidance, navigation & control, mission sequencing, payload control, redundancy and contingency management, uplink and downlink packet encoding and decoding, converting between different serial protocols, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, ground based GUIs, and aircraft subsystem control (i.e., engine, electrical system, fuel system)

 
Requirements:

• BS degree in ME / EE / AE engineering
• Minimum Four years’ experience in a professional environment developing MATLAB / Simulink control systems with auto code experience; or MS in Controls or Aerospace Engineering plus 2 years’ experience.
• Embedded code experience preferred.
• Experience in developing physics based 6 DOF simulations, preference helicopters
• Drive usage of tools: Matlab/Simulink, C, C++, FORTRAN or Python for cost efficient development and execution of program
• Ability to predict performance of helicopter simulations
• Experience developing scripts to run batch processes
• Experience in data post processing from simulation runs and report writing
• Familiarity with autonomous guidance, navigation and control
• Experience developing guidance and autonomy algorithms required; in denied environments preferred

 
Minimum two years of demonstrated, hands-on professional experience in at least one, ideally a combination, of the following areas:

• Model-based design and/or test using the Simulink/Stateflow tool chain.
• Software development in a relevant subject matter area: Aircraft Guidance Navigation & Control or other robotic system guidance, navigation and control; ground- or airborne mission systems; general aerospace flight control or cockpit avionics systems; ground stations; payload control.
• Development/operations of hardware-in-the-loop simulators, conducting testing and troubleshooting of HW/SW interfaces.
• Open Architecture oriented systems (FACE) applied to complex aerospace or military systems (C2, payload data, etc.)
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, version control systems, defect tracking tools, and peer review required
• Existing DoD Secret Clearance or be eligible to receive secret clearance.

Reference: 969520

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