- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- 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 technical architecture, performance, and team execution.
Compensation
$250,000—$280,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Own technical architecture, roadmap, execution, and delivery of navigation capabilities across requirements, design, implementation, verification, integration, and flight test
- Translate mission objectives and vehicle concepts into navigation requirements, sensor specifications, interface definitions, performance budgets, verification criteria, engineering plans, and team deliverables
- Design, analyze, and mature navigation algorithms including inertial navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, calibration, alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection
- Develop robust estimation solutions accounting for sensor noise, bias, drift, timing errors, misalignment, environmental disturbances, vehicle dynamics, computational constraints, and modeling uncertainty
- Establish rigorous methods for evaluating estimator observability, convergence, consistency, robustness, integrity, and degraded‑mode behavior
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, controls, robotics, or a related field