GNC & Autonomy Engineer

We're looking for a Senior GNC & Autonomy Engineer to help us build out a new portfolio in autonomous systems for our military, governmental, and commercial customers.

In this role, you'll own the "brains" of autonomous systems: guidance, navigation, and control; state estimation; perception and computer vision; and machine learning methods.

This isn't a mature product line with an established roadmap; you'll be building it.

Your creativity and research interests will largely determine what we build next, and you'll be responsible for writing the proposals and winning the programs that fund it.

We're hiring for this role alongside a companion Sr.

Robotics Engineer posting covering the other half of this portfolio - feel free to apply to either based on your strengths, or apply together with a research partner as a pair if you'd like to build this out as a team from day one.

This is a unique opportunity with near-complete autonomy to build out your own research vector, backed by an established R&D firm with the infrastructure, proposal support, and customer relationships already in place.

While this group is being built out, you'll also support our existing mechanical design, thermal, and other funded programs as needed, until there's steady work while you grow the pipeline in your own area.

You'll also be expected to help train and mentor junior engineers.

• Develop guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for autonomous systems - undersea and ground-based vehicles, and other autonomously-operating platforms
• Design and implement state estimation, sensor fusion, and localization/mapping methods
• Develop computer vision and machine learning methods for perception and autonomous decision-making
• Take algorithms from theory to simulation to hardware-in-the-loop to field testing
• Write technical proposals to both government and private customers to define and win the work that funds your research vector
• Propose and lead internal IRAD efforts to mature new capabilities ahead of customer need
• Collaborate closely with our robotics and mechanical engineers on sensor selection and system-level integration