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Sr. Navigation Engineer
Advanced Space
Westminster, USA
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
USD 132000-174900 yearly / year
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Responsibilities
- Lead spacecraft navigation for all mission phases, including formulation, tracking architecture development, estimation approach, and operations.
- Develop and validate advanced Kalman filter configurations for complex regimes (multi-body, low-thrust, weak observability).
- Serve as primary navigation lead for flight operations operations prep, including console support, real-time OD, and anomaly response.
- Architect navigation solutions that account for mission design, GNC, communications, and ground system constraints.
- Own navigation products for major reviews, clearly communicating performance, trades, and risks.
- Mentor junior navigation engineers in OD, filter design, measurement modeling, and operations best practices.
- Drive improvements to navigation procedures, tool setups, and standard operating practices.
- Support BD and IRAD by shaping navigation concepts, contributing to proposals, and defining new mission and capability concepts.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12 years of professional experience in spacecraft navigation, orbit determination, or closely related flight dynamics roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
- Demonstrated leadership of OD campaigns or major navigation tasks, including filter setup, force models, and tracking strategies.
- Proven ability to design and adapt Kalman filters for new dynamical and tracking regimes, including dynamic, bias, stochastic, and consider parameters.
- Significant experience with navigation/astrodynamics tools (e.g., MONTE, FreeFlyer, ODTK, GMAT, STK) in flight or flight-like applications.
- Strong navigation operations experience, including nav operator training/certification or equivalent console and contingency support.
- Ability to act as primary navigation point of contact, interacting with vendors and partners, driving requirements, owning verification/validation, and conducting system-level trades.
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