Junior Trajectory Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Columbia, Maryland, United States. Onsite role.

Salary: $80,000–$100,000 per year.

Company

Provides air and missile defense threat engineering, combat, radar, and missile systems engineering and analysis for U.S. government and industry customers.

What you will do

• Develop intelligence-based analytical models and tools to characterize and analyze ballistic missile, cruise missile, and hypersonic vehicle performance.
• Develop aerodynamics, mass properties, propulsion, guidance, navigation, and control inputs and modules.
• Characterize missile performance variation and uncertainty, model threat missile excursions, and perform design trade studies.
• Generate and evaluate digital trajectory data using 6-DOF simulation tools.
• Support development of a high-fidelity Six Degrees-of-Freedom digital flight simulation environment.
• Document and present technical work to internal and external customers, and research techniques to improve modeling toolsets and processes.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
• 0–5 years of work experience.
• Experience or capability in one or more of the following: analysis and modeling of ballistic missile, cruise missile, and/or hypersonic systems; flight dynamics; vehicle performance characterization; propulsion system design; supersonic or hypersonic aerodynamics prediction; guidance, navigation, and control; or flight test data analysis.
• Familiarity with MATLAB and Python.
• Ability to communicate effectively through written documentation and oral presentations.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with C++.
• Active DoD Secret clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Intellectually stimulating engineering environment.
• Opportunities for technical and leadership growth.
• Work supporting aerospace threat missile modeling and simulation activities.