Job Description
GNC Navigation Engineer
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Our customer is a three-time Fortune Best Workplace®, Great Place to Work® certified, a Best Place for Working Parents®, and a seven-time Huntsville Best Places to Work® winner.
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They're a small business making a big impact on national-priority missions in missile defense, hypersonics, DoW space, and civil space.
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- Competitive pay & great benefits
- Career growth & professional development
- A culture of trust, integrity, and teamwork
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Position Overview:
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Our customer is seeking a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer to specialize in the development, simulation, analysis, and testing of navigation algorithms to join our team working on-site in Huntsville, AL. An active Secret Clearance is required.
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Key Responsibilities:
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This role joins a highly skilled team of GNC engineers and algorithm developers supporting advanced technology demonstrations. GNC Navigation Engineer tasks include:
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- Perform modeling, simulation, and analysis of a navigation system as part of a broader system simulation
- Lead the design of new algorithms and/or transition existing algorithms to produce software enabling accurate navigation
- Use and apply multiple sensor fusion algorithms, including extended Kalman filters, unscented Kalman filters, particle filters, and factor graphs
- Fuse simulated and real-world sensor inputs from inertial sensors, star trackers, cameras, altimeters, and other aiding sensors
- Work within a team of engineers across disciplines to design innovative navigation systems that are often constrained by conflicting factors, including accuracy, operating environment, and cost
- Present techniques, solutions, and results to the GNC team
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Required Qualifications:
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- Post secondary STEM degree with 5 - 10+ years of relevant experience
- 2+ years of relevant experience with extended Kalman filters, unscented Kalman filters, particle filters, or factor graphs
- Experience working with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) in the context of a multi-sensor navigation system
- Good working knowledge of navigation architectures as part of a flight system involving closed-loop Guidance, Navigation, and Control software
- Professionally demonstrated proficiency in C++
- Ability to clearly articulate technical information, often to non-technical customers
- Strong written/verbal communication and organizational and interpersonal skills
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Desired Skills and Experience:
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- Familiarity with alternative navigation technologies to improve navigation performance in GPS-degraded environments
- Experience deploying navigation algorithms to real-time applications
- Experience with Linux, C++, MATLAB, and/or Python
- Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines and software version control such as Git
- Experience conducting business in high OPSEC environment, including modeling, simulation, and software development
- Experience with specifying, testing and/or qualifying sensor hardware
- Experience in weapon system and/or sensor modeling, both for the items to be modeled, and the synthetic modeled environments used to stimulate the simulated hardware
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles, including requirements development and verification
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Clearance: Active DoW Secret Clearance; U.S. citizenship is required