Description:
Systems Engineer
Location: Grand Prairie, TX
Job ID: #71398
Pay Range: $80-96 an hour
SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED!!!
Interest in candidates with experience in rotary wing vehicle design, particularly Guidance and Control law development. Experience with MATLAB and SIMULINK
What You’ll Do:
• Collaborate with subsystem and software engineers to integrate MATLAB and C++ models of weapons, sensors, ground systems and environments, guidance, navigation and autopilot algorithms and actual Operational Flight Program code into the 6-Degree of Freedom (6-DOF) Integrated Flight Simulations (IFS).
• Perform modeling and simulation tasks for system survivability, Safety of Flight (SOF), trade studies and simulation analyses for end-to-end kill chain assessment
• Use the simulations to support Hardware In the Loop (HWIL) Lab to verify performance requirements are met.
• Support integration and testing of hardware and software in Hardware In-the-Loop (HWIL).
• Participate in flight test prediction and data performance analysis for flight tests
Basic Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Field or Physics
• Proficient in C++
• FORTRAN experience with 6-Degree of Freedom simulation
• Experience in Aerospace Applications
Desired skills:
• Proficient in C++ and MATLAB and/or Python
• Willingness to work onsite in a classified lab environment
• Ability to occasionally travel for up to two weeks at a time to support flight tests
• Experience integrating and testing hardware and software in Hardware In-the-Loop (HWIL)
• Familiarity with some, or all, of the following: linear algebra, probability and statistics, state dynamic equations, Kalman filter applications, kinematics, and rotating coordinate systems.
• Active Secret clearance required to start
• Experience with rotary wing vehicles is a major plus
Core hours of First Shift schedule: Monday through Thursday from 9am-3pm CST.
Benefits provided: 401K, medical, dental, and vision, sick time as applicable to state law
Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer. Butler evaluates applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The Butler America Aerospace, LLC. EEO Policy Statement and “Know Your Rights” Poster is available here: Applicant and Employee Notices.
Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at accommodations@butler.com.
Job Location:
Grand Prairie, TX
Rate:
$80-$96 AN HOUR
Per Diem:
NO
Overtime:
POSSIBLE
Duration:
12 MONTHS
Start Date:
ASAP
Input Date:
08/12/2025
Firm Name:
BUTLER AEROSPACE & DEFENSE
Attention:
Breanna Lashley
Address:
SHELTON POINTE STE 204 2 TRAP FALLS ROAD
City, State:
SHELTON, CT 06484
Phone:
203/926-2705
Email:blashley@butler.com Website:www.butler.com
