Advanced Navigation & Simulation Engineer

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Laurel (MD); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD seeks a Navigation, Modeling, and Simulation Engineer to develop and analyze advanced navigation systems and algorithms for aerospace and missile applications.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team to apply signal processing, state estimation, EO/IR image processing, photogrammetry, optimization, and physics-based modeling and simulation to challenging navigation problems.

Qualifications

• Have a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or other related technical discipline.
• Have at least one year of experience working with state estimation or navigation systems.
• Have experience developing algorithms, mathematical models, or simulations and using them to analyze complex engineering systems.
• Have experience with MATLAB, C++ or other programming language.

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze algorithms for advanced navigation systems using techniques such as signal and image processing, state estimation, photogrammetry, optimization, and sensor/data fusion.
• Work with EO/IR imagery, terrain and geospatial data, and other sensor data to develop and evaluate approaches for navigation and localization.
• Develop, implement, and analyze physics-based models and simulations of flight vehicles, sensors, environments, and navigation systems.
• Apply Monte Carlo, probabilistic, covariance, sensitivity, and other analysis techniques to characterize system performance and support system-level design trades.
• Develop and evaluate estimation and optimization approaches for determining vehicle position, velocity, attitude, and other states from available sensor measurements.
• Interface navigation algorithms with flight system guidance and control algorithms and contribute to integrated system analysis.
• Support testing in laboratory, simulation, and flight environments, including post-test analysis of sensor data and navigation algorithms implemented in onboard software.

Job description

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD seeks a Navigation, Modeling, and Simulation Engineer to develop and analyze advanced navigation systems and algorithms for aerospace and missile applications.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team to apply signal processing, state estimation, EO/IR image processing, photogrammetry, optimization, and physics-based modeling and simulation to challenging navigation problems.