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

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of autonomous air power, advanced tactical missile systems, strategic weapons, and hypersonic strike and defense systems.

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.
• 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.
• Use and update Anduril's existing navigation filters, models, and simulations to improve navigation performance.
• Support and drive the development of algorithms for navigation, guidance, and control systems.
• Support and drive the development of advanced sensor fusion algorithms leveraging INS, GNSS, cameras, LiDAR, and other sensors.
• Apply covariance analysis techniques for early requirements derivation, as well as to optimize navigation system performance, error modeling, and system uncertainty assessments.
• Improve calibration procedures for sensor suites used in aerospace navigation systems.
• Collaborate with GNC, Flight Software, MSA, T&E, product leadership, and other multidisciplinary teams to integrate navigation software and hardware into real-world flight systems.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• General knowledge of guidance and flight control systems.
• Experience optimizing and tuning navigation system performance, error modeling, and system uncertainty assessments.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Autonomous air, ground or undersea vehicle navigation experience.
• Strong software and hardware integration background.
• Experience adapting and applying real-time pose localization algorithms.
• Experience with 6-DOF vehicle simulation.
• GNSS receiver and antenna integration experience.
• Current eligibility at the Top Secret level.