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Senior Associate, Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer

L3Harris · Orlando, FL

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Level
Senior
Team
Controls
Degree
Required
Experience asked
2+ years
Industry
Aerospace & defense
Posted
10 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A senior controls role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Orlando, FL. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the.

They ask for
2+ years · degree required

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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026

Controls Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $99k–$141k.

Median of the low and high ends of 336 live postings that list pay, out of 957 controls engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 17 other live controls postings in Florida.

Experience asked
Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • PLC 61%
  • Automation 56%
  • ✓ New product launch 44%
  • Team leadership 28%
  • ✓ Python 28%
  • Tooling 28%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

It asks for 2+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.Show

Essential Functions

  • ◆Perform Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) design and analysis for tactical and strategic missile systems.
  • ◆Conduct trajectory shaping and tuning of tactical and strategic missile guidance and autopilot parameters to meet stringent customer requirements.
  • ◆Generate, modify, and utilize models and simulations of aerospace vehicles using first principles.
  • ◆Implement algorithms and modify simulations in C/C++ coding environment following strict Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes.
  • ◆Generate, modify, and utilize high-fidelity models and simulations of components and subsystems utilizing MATLAB/Simulink for tuning and

requirements

verification.

  • ✓Analyze real-time and post-test telemetry data in support of System level verification and mission activities.
  • ✓Investigate unexpected results by examining underlying physics, modeling assumptions, software implementation, and data quality.
  • ✓Collaborate with engineers across aerodynamics, propulsion, electrical, mechanical, software, and test to support vehicle integration and resolve interface issues.
  • ✓Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Qualifications

  • ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace or Electrical Engineering, or other related technical field, and a minimum of 2 years of prior related engineering experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.

requirements

traceability & verification)

  • ✓Academic, research, internship, or professional experience applying vehicle dynamics, control theory, navigation, or estimation principles.
  • ✓Experience using MATLAB and Simulink for engineering analysis, modeling, or algorithm development.
  • ✓Programming experience in C, C++, Fortran, or Python.
  • ✓Coursework or project experience involving aerodynamics, propulsion, structural dynamics, or interactions between physical subsystems.
  • ✓Familiarity with systems engineering activities, including

requirements

development, traceability, and verification.

  • ✓Familiarity with version control and software development in Windows or Linux environments.

requirements

for access to classified information.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title : Senior Associate, Systems / Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer

Job Location: Orlando, Florida

Job Schedule: 9/80 work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an early career Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer to join our Orlando, Florida team supporting missile programs and expanding all-up-round integration activities. Working alongside experienced engineers, you will apply foundational engineering principles to vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, classical/modern flight controls, tactical/strategic missile guidance, estimation theory, modeling and simulation, and system verification. This position offers opportunities to develop practical engineering skills through analysis, software development, integration, and evaluation of test data.

Preferred Additional Skills

  • +Missile or Launch Vehicle navigation and guidance experience/coursework
  • +Ability to work under Windows and Linux environments
  • +Working with Systems Engineering disciplines and related activities (e.g.,

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