Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer - Navigation and Estimation- Air Dominance & Strike
Core
Design, develop, test, and integrate navigation systems and architectures for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic autonomous air power, tactical missile systems, and strategic weapons.
Role type
Senior IC GNC Engineer (Navigation and Estimation)
Builds
Mission-critical autonomous flight systems for air dominance and strike
Domain
Defense / Aerospace / Autonomous Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Kalman filtering, inertial navigation, sensor fusion, C/C++, MATLAB, Simulink, embedded software development, real-time systems, error modeling, covariance analysis
Preferred skills
Autonomous vehicle navigation, robotics pose localization, 6-DOF simulation, GNSS integration, PCB design
Technologies
INS, GNSS, LiDAR, cameras, Extended Kalman filters
Responsibilities
Lead navigation system design with cradle-to-grave ownership; analyze mission requirements to determine optimal navigation architecture; support flight testing and troubleshoot anomalies; perform trade studies and simulations to validate algorithm accuracy; develop and integrate inertial navigation systems (INS); optimize navigation performance and sensor calibration; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate software and hardware.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
