Guidance Navigation Intern

At Northrop Grumman, employees work on systems that affect people's lives around the world today and for generations to come. The company has a long record of technological firsts, from the first flight across the Atlantic to stealth bombers and the moon landing. Northrop Grumman looks for people with bold ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit who want to invent the future and have fun doing it.

Northrop Grumman is a space pioneer serving government, civil and commercial customers. Its space capabilities rest on expertise dating back to the dawn of the space age, providing reliable, agile and affordable space solutions.

An internship at Northrop Grumman goes beyond new skills. Interns explore the enterprise, network with experts and finish with a resume that opens doors, along with pride in their work. The company provides training, professional development and networking opportunities.

Northrop Grumman is seeking Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer interns for this position at its Space sector in Redondo Beach, CA. The intern will join the Western Region Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering discipline.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Derive guidance, navigation and control system requirements from customer and mission needs.
• Work with functional teams on trade studies that support selected approaches.
• Advise on selecting hardware (sensors, actuators, processors) and developing algorithms (trackers, filters, controllers) to meet GNC requirements.
• Build models and simulations of system attitude, ephemeris and line-of-sight dynamics to support analysis, verification and flight operations.
• Design, develop, implement, verify and test algorithms, software and simulation tools for guidance, navigation and control of spacecraft during earth orbit, interplanetary cruise, orbital insertion and staging events.
• Engineer navigation functions, including statistical processing of measured data and its use in algorithms that simulate physical reality.
• Build guidance functions, including equations that achieve a desired position, orientation or orbit in space.
• Carry out control design and analysis, including control laws and hardware and software requirements for spacecraft.