Navigation Software Engineer - Assured PNT & Sensor Fusion

• Develop, implement, tune, and evaluate GPS/INS navigation filters and multi-sensor navigation solutions.
• Design and maintain Kalman-filter-based state estimation algorithms, including error-state and/or extended Kalman filtering approaches.
• Develop sensor and error models for IMUs, GNSS receivers, magnetometers, and other navigation sensors.
• Integrate new navigation aiding sources into an INS-based navigation solution.
• Support integration of alternative navigation technologies, which may include vision-based navigation, LEO-derived PNT, terrain or feature-based navigation, or other signals of opportunity.
• Develop algorithms for operation through degraded, disrupted, or denied GPS/GNSS environments.
• Analyze navigation performance, covariance behavior, sensor errors, filter convergence, and failure modes using simulation and recorded test data.
• Develop software and analysis tools for navigation algorithm development, automated testing, data replay, and performance characterization.
• Support laboratory, HWIL, ground, and flight testing of navigation systems.
• Work closely with embedded software, hardware, systems, and test engineers to transition navigation algorithms onto operational hardware.
• Diagnose real-world navigation problems using recorded sensor and flight data and translate findings into algorithm or software improvements.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in inertial navigation and state estimation and will take navigation algorithms beyond simulation into real hardware and flight-test environments., * B.S. or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.

• Strong understanding of inertial navigation systems (INS) and GPS/GNSS-aided navigation.
• Experience developing or implementing Kalman filters, state estimators, or sensor-fusion algorithms.
• Understanding of IMU measurements, inertial sensor errors, coordinate frames, attitude representations, and navigation equations.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, C, and/or C++ for algorithm development, simulation, analysis, or implementation.
• Ability to analyze experimental data and troubleshoot navigation-system performance.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced engineering and prototype-development environment., * Experience developing navigation software for UAS, missiles, launched effects, autonomous vehicles, aircraft, or other embedded platforms.
• Experience with GNSS-denied or contested navigation.
• Experience integrating non-GNSS aiding measurements into an INS or navigation filter.
• Experience with vision-based navigation, visual-inertial navigation, LEO PNT, terrain-aided navigation, Doppler/radar aiding, or other alternative navigation technologies.
• Experience with tightly coupled or deeply integrated GNSS/INS architectures.
• Experience with GNSS integrity, jamming, spoofing, or interference detection/mitigation., * navigation algorithm: 1 year (Preferred)

• 401(k)
• 401(k) 4% Match
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance