Principal Engineer, State Estimation
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United States / San Diego, California / Dallas, Texas / Boston, MA / Washington, DC / RemoteFull-TimePrincipal
Salary270,000 - 400,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonMatlabC++
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field
- 15+ years of experience developing state estimation algorithms for aerospace navigation applications
- Experience implementing GNSS/INS integration solutions
- Experience with safety-critical system development and certification processes
- Deep understanding of state estimation theory
- Experience implementing multi-sensor fusion algorithms in production systems
- Strong background in inertial navigation, GNSS positioning, and sensor error modeling
- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python/MATLAB
- Understanding of integrity monitoring, protection levels, and safety assessment methods
- Experience with requirements management and verification/validation processes
Responsibilities
- Establish navigation performance requirements and error budgets for safety-critical applications
- Support decomposition of navigation requirements into allocations for sensors, estimation algorithms, and software components
- Design detailed software architecture for state estimation implementations
- Design and implement Extended Kalman Filter algorithms
- Implement tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled GNSS/INS integration algorithms
- Integrate diverse sensing modalities into multi-sensor fusion framework
- Develop fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) strategies
- Implement integrity monitoring and protection level calculations
- Develop verification and validation test plans
- Provide technical guidance and mentor junior engineers
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