PGS Worldwide is seeking a Secret-Cleared GNC Engineer – Actuator Modeling in Chandler, Arizona for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will perform modeling, simulation, controls analysis, and performance evaluation of electromechanical and electro-hydraulic actuation systems supporting advanced aerospace and launch vehicle applications.
Required Skills
- Direct experience modeling and analyzing actuator systems.
- Experience with both electromechanical and electro-hydraulic actuation systems.
- Experience designing and analyzing single-loop and multi-loop PID control systems.
- Experience developing actuator performance requirements and specifications.
- Proficiency with MATLAB, Simulink, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing linear and nonlinear actuator models in Simulink.
- Experience comparing simulation results against hardware test data and resolving discrepancies.
- Knowledge of aircraft or launch-vehicle structural and mechanical system behavior.
- Ability to present technical results to engineering SMEs and non-technical stakeholders.
- Active U.S. Government Secret clearance required.
- U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Skills
- 4+ years of direct actuator-system modeling experience.
- Experience supporting anomaly investigations.
- Experience conducting trade studies for new actuation-system applications.
- Experience with kinematic modeling of 3-bar and 4-bar mechanisms.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain linear and nonlinear mathematical models of actuation systems.
- Perform modeling and simulation for launch vehicles, target vehicles, and related aerospace systems.
- Design and analyze PID control architectures for electromechanical and electro-hydraulic actuators.
- Evaluate simulation output against actual test data and update models as needed.
- Develop performance specifications and requirements for new actuation systems.
- Review actuator-system test data and identify processing or performance issues.
- Support anomaly investigations for production and fielded systems.
- Conduct trade studies evaluating new actuation-system concepts.
- Perform kinematic analysis and mathematical modeling of mechanical linkage systems.
- Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, systems, and flight-sciences engineers.
Pay
Job ID: 2095
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