Consulting GPS Receiver Principal Investigator
Northrop Grumman
- Woodland Hills, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Development and evaluation of GPS receiver architectures and requirements
- Provide technical guidance and monitoring for activities focused on simulation modeling and analysis of GPS receiver processing and performance
- Characterization of GPS receiver performance in relevant environments
- Analysis of GPS navigation performance in laboratory and flight test scenarios
- Interface with
- Communication of status, issues, and results with program management and customers.
- Help shape technology strategy and lead roadmap development for the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) research and development operating unit as well as proposal and capture strategy for critical programs.
- Work in close collaboration with Government R&D organizations such as DARPA, AFRL, ONR, and Army labs to develop advanced navigation and timing technologies.
- Work with a team of navigation and timing experts in a team-based collaborative environment dedicated to advancing the state of the art
- Apply your research and development skills to architect real-world products and capabilities well beyond purely academic or theoretical
- Work with leading-edge Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems for GPS, GNSS, and other cooperative signals along with advanced signal processing techniques to define new product lines
- Work with leading-edge navigation warfare (NavWar) systems, techniques, algorithms, and software to enhance mission success in contested environments.
- Shape next generation mission applications like autonomous navigation, distributed sensing, alternative sensing and sensor fusion, proliferated low earth orbit (pLEO) space systems, model-based system engineering, cloud-based software as a service, and swarming vehicles.
- Present your ideas to internal and external groups; lead proposal activities; and represent Northrop Grumman at technical conferences and working groups.
- Masters of Science in a STEM discipline and a minimum of 18 years of prior relevant experience, OR Ph.D. in STEM discipline and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience.
- US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
- Demonstrated experience with algorithm development for satellite acquisition, tracking, and receiver measurement formation
- Demonstrated experience with design of GPS receiver tracking loops, including characterization of platform dynamics, environmental/interference effects, jamming mitigation techniques on GPS processing
- Exposure to requirements specification and interface control documents (ICD) for GPS-153/RS-232,etc.
- Demonstrated experience in a technical lead role for a GPS product or lead role for an integrated product team (IPT).
- Hands-On experience with software defined Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers.
- Demonstrated experience developing embedded software utilizing C, C++, Ada or related languages (typically 10+ years of experience)
- Demonstrated experience in architecting, developing, and integrating real time embedded software for GPS Receivers, including on target Hardware
- Expert knowledge of signal selection, acquisition and tracking, Position, Velocity, and Time (PVT) calculation, data demodulation, signal correction, jamming and spoofing or related applications
- Demonstrated experience developing software using Green Hills Integrity Real-time Operating Systems, board support package (BSP), Green Hills Multi IDE and/or Wind River VxWorks RTOS/BSP for C/C++ or equivalent development tools
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering or Electrical Engineering or any related field and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience.
- Working experience as a Team Lead, Technical Lead, and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) in fields of knowledge and expertise.
- Working knowledge of Power Management
- Working knowledge of Buffer/Memory Management
- Working knowledge of Precision timing interface.
- Familiarity with signals of opportunity and alternate navigation signals.
- Familiarity with open system architectures (ex: ASPN, CMOSS, PNTOS, JADC2).
- Familiarity with anti-jam GPS processing techniques and analysis (such as nulling, STAP, SFAP, SFAP-T, differential GPS)
- Demonstrated experience with military GPS modernization particularly M-code signal processing and capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience with GPS satellite constellation simulator test equipment
- Demonstrated experience with inertial navigation systems (INS) mechanizations.
- Familiarity with integrated INS/GPS navigation systems involving exposure to Kalman filtering / estimation theory
- Demonstrated experience designing robust navigation systems with integrity monitoring including GPS measurement fault detection, isolation, and exclusion
- Expertise in RF impairment analysis.
- Experience with one or more of the following: time metrology, time synchronization, time and frequency transfer, design of precision timing system, clock analysis, clock ensembling, design of time and frequency measurement systems
- Experience with developing Vector Signal processing or Data processing algorithms for wireless communication technology
- Familiarity with Agile lifecycle process including Scrum, Continuous Integration, Unit Test, and Test Driven Methodologies