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

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead navigation system design for one or more Anduril products, cradle-to-grave ownership.
• Analyze and help develop mission requirements and constraints across the Anduril product portfolio to determine optimal navigation system architecture.
• Support and drive the evaluation and integration of advanced alternative navigation aiding sources (prepare, support, and conduct lab, motion, and flight tests).
• Support flight testing to measure & validate navigation performance relative to mission requirements and troubleshoot testing and operational anomalies.
• Perform trade studies, modeling, simulation and other forms of analysis to validate algorithm and navigation stack accuracy, robustness, and performance.
• Conduct simulation and testing for validation of navigation algorithms and system performance.
• Collect and analyze platform telemetry data to validate platform operation and performance
• Support the design, development, integration and testing of an inertial navigation systems (INS) for aerospace vehicles (UAS, spacecraft, missiles, etc.).

Job requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• Strong bias for action, ability to thrive in uncertainty, and desire to closely collaborate cross-functionally with other teams
• 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