- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Principal
- $250K–$280K per year
- 10+ years
Lead the development, integration, and flight validation of navigation systems for autonomous aircraft and related defense platforms, owning the technical architecture and leading the Navigation team.
Compensation
Engineer $250,000—$280,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture, roadmap, execution, and delivery of navigation capabilities across requirements, design, implementation, verification, integration, and flight test.
- Design, analyze, and mature navigation algorithms, including inertial navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, sensor calibration, alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection and isolation.
- Lead navigation performance analysis, uncertainty quantification, covariance analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity studies, and error-budget development.
- Drive production implementation of navigation algorithms in embedded, real-time software.
- Own the technical evaluation and selection of navigation sensors and related hardware, including IMUs, GNSS receivers, aiding sensors, and integrated navigation solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field
- Nice to have: Extended Kalman filtering
- Nice to have: Unscented Kalman filtering
- Nice to have: Nonlinear filtering