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93500.00 - 126500.00 USD / Year
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At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We're committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that's welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us. Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer to join our MQ-25 Flight Engineering team in Hazelwood, MO. This role will support the unmanned aircraft's new product design, development, integration, and flight test with opportunities to contribute in areas of flight path definition, mission planning, inner loop flight controls, air data processing, subsystem control, redundancy and contingency management. Join us and be a part of the world's first team to productionize the first unmanned, carrier-based aircraft, where you can build something better for yourself, for our customers, and for the world.

Job Responsibility:

  • Define Guidance, Navigation, and Control mission requirements and ensure requirement quality, traceability, and verification at the system and down to the component level
  • Execute design reviews, analyses, simulations and component/system testing to ensure delivery of products that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations
  • Use multidisciplinary model data (aero, mass properties, propulsion, etc.) to develop and refine a complex, nonlinear, 6 degrees of freedom simulation model
  • Use various software languages, C, C++, FORTRAN, Python, etc. to develop, implement, integrate, and test vehicle models, controllers, and resulting SW
  • Design guidance and flight control laws using modern linear control design techniques and tools to achieve design and performance targets
  • Use advanced nonlinear analysis to assess and refine the control law design
  • Perform model validation against test data to inform and improve the accuracy of the simulation environment
  • Develop supplementary controllers, limiters, mode logic, redundancy management, and signal shaping to properly bound the performance within all areas of the flight envelope
  • Work with flight simulation and Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) software engineers to incorporate control laws into the operational flight program
  • Define, analyze, and maintain Air Data sensor processing, Computational Fluid Dynamics based source error correction, and redundancy management
  • Participate in DO-178B/C related software verification activities
  • Coordinate autonomous air vehicle contingency management strategy across diverse, multidisciplined teams and manage software implementation
  • Support flight simulations including desktop, software, and real time simulations
  • Support hardware in the loop development and testing
  • Support flight testing planning and execution
  • Work under general supervision

Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
  • 2 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
  • Experience using Matlab/Simulink or MatrixX/Systembuild to model and simulate aerospace systems
  • This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. U.S. Person includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Nice to have:

  • Computer Science Minor
  • Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
  • Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
What we offer:
  • health insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
  • best in class 401(k) plan with dollar for dollar match up to 10% of eligible pay with immediate 100% vesting
  • Student Loan Match
  • industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly
  • fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
  • up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 14, 2026

Expiration:
May 28, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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