Lead State Estimation & Navigation Engineer

nerostechnologies; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Neros is seeking a senior engineer to own the state estimation and navigation roadmap for unmanned systems. You will architect and deploy GPS-denied/navigation capabilities, fusing IMU, vision, GNSS, and other onboard data on embedded hardware.

You will lead a team of estimation engineers, define uncertainty metrics, and validate through simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight tests on multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in state estimation, navigation, sensor fusion, or GNC.
• Proven ownership of a state estimation or navigation system from architecture through deployment on production hardware.
• Deep expertise in estimation theory and its practical application, including EKF, UKF, error state or invariant filters, and factor graph or sliding window smoothing.
• Hands on experience fusing IMU, camera, GNSS, and range or altimetry sensing, including calibration, time synchronization, latency compensation, bias modeling, and outlier rejection.
• Experience delivering navigation performance in GPS denied or GPS degraded environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for onboard state estimation and navigation, interfacing with guidance and control.
• Architect, implement, and field GPS denied/degraded navigation, fusing IMU, vision, GNSS on embedded compute.
• Lead the development of visual inertial and terrain relative navigation from prototype to fielded capability across multiple aircraft.
• Define and enforce the standard for characterizing estimation uncertainty and reporting autonomy reliability, including validation in simulation and flight test.
• Hire, mentor, and manage state estimation and navigation engineers, and set technical bar through design and code reviews.

Skills

State estimation

Navigation

Sensor fusion

Leadership experience

C++

Python

Real-time embedded

Linear algebra

Optimization

Job description

Neros is seeking a senior engineer to own the state estimation and navigation roadmap for unmanned systems. You will architect and deploy GPS-denied/navigation capabilities, fusing IMU, vision, GNSS, and other onboard data on embedded hardware.

You will lead a team of estimation engineers, define uncertainty metrics, and validate through simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight tests on multiple platforms.