Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer - Navigation and Estimation- Air Dominance & Strike

The role

This person will lead navigation system design and develop, test, and integrate navigation systems for autonomous aerospace systems. They will perform modeling, simulation, and flight testing to validate navigation performance.

What you will do

• Lead navigation system design for one or more Anduril products
• Analyze and develop mission requirements and constraints
• Evaluate and integrate advanced alternative navigation aiding sources
• Support flight testing to measure and validate navigation performance
• Perform trade studies, modeling, simulation and analysis
• Conduct simulation and testing for validation of navigation algorithms
• Collect and analyze platform telemetry data
• Support design, development, integration and testing of inertial navigation systems
• Use and update existing navigation filters, models, and simulations
• Develop algorithms for navigation, guidance, and control systems

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• Proficiency in MATLAB & Simulink, C/C++
• Strong knowledge of navigation principles, including inertial navigation, GPS
• Experience characterizing, integrating, and testing inertial and non-inertial sensing modalities like INS, GNSS, vision-based, and odometry
• Experience with navigation system design, development and testing on aerospace systems
• Expertise in Kalman filtering, Extended Kalman filtering, and other estimation techniques
• Experience with real-time systems and embedded software development
• General knowledge of guidance and flight control systems
• Experience optimizing and tuning navigation system performance, error modeling, and system uncertainty assessments, and requirements methods
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance
• 3 or more years of experience in Guidance, Navigation & Control engineering or related technical experience for GNC Engineer
• 8 or more years of experience in Guidance, Navigation & Control engineering or related technical experience for Senior GNC Engineer

Nice to have

• Autonomous air, ground or undersea vehicle navigation experience, focusing on low-cost sensors
• Strong software (MATLAB, C/C++) and hardware (sensors, harnesses, PCB design) integration background
• Working with real-time systems is a big plus
• Experience adapting and applying real-time pose localization algorithms from robotics
• Experience with 6-DOF vehicle simulation
• GNSS receiver and antenna integration experience
• Current eligibility at the Top Secret level preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.