Senior IMU & Inertial Navigation Expert

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc.; City of Auburn (NY); In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

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Health benefits

Employee ownership

Retirement plan 401(k)

PTO & parental leave

Life insurance

Tuition assistance

Training programs

Descrizione del lavoro

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. seeks a Principal Inertial Navigation & IMU SME to lead development, integration, evaluation, and qualification of advanced positioning, navigation, and timing solutions for military aviation.

You will oversee IMU selection, perform performance analyses, and coordinate lab, ground, and flight tests while mentoring teams and engaging with customers and government stakeholders.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or related field.
• At least 10 years of experience with IMUs, inertial navigation systems, or related tech.
• Proficiency with navigation‑grade and/or high‑performance IMUs.
• Deep knowledge of gyroscopes, accelerometers, inertial-navigation principles, sensor-error modeling, calibration, and navigation performance analysis.
• Experience supporting IMUs for military aviation or aerospace applications.
• Experience with GPS/GNSS‑aided navigation and navigation-filter concepts.
• Ability to develop technical requirements, performance specs, interface-control docs, verification criteria.
• Experience analyzing laboratory, environmental, ground-test, qualification, or flight-test data.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to work with cross-disciplinary teams and understand systems integration.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain security clearance.

Mansioni

• Serve as the technical SME for inertial sensors, IMUs, and integrated navigation solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across IMU/navigation lifecycle: requirements, architecture, design, integration, calibration, verification, qualification, production, and field support.
• Evaluate navigation-grade vs tactical-grade IMUs for aviation platforms.
• Lead or support IMU selection activities, evaluations, market research, and trade studies.
• Assess gyro and accelerometer technologies, error sources, calibration approaches, and navigation performance.
• Analyze IMU performance: bias, stability, scale-factor error, misalignment, and drift.
• Evaluate navigation performance during GPS/GNSS degradation (free-inertial, blended, coasting).
• Support integration of IMUs with GPS/GNSS receivers, processors, Kalman filters, and mission computers.
• Develop and review technical requirements, test plans, verification criteria, and qualification strategies.
• Plan laboratory, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, environmental, and flight-test activities.
• Analyze test/flight data to identify shortfalls and root causes; recommend corrective actions.
• Evaluate supplier designs, proposals, and product roadmaps; support issue resolution across inertial systems.
• Support technical reviews, trade studies, design reviews, and customer technical interchange meetings.
• Communicate complex navigation concepts and risks to engineers, leadership, customers, and government stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering personnel across multidisciplinary teams.

Conoscenze

Inertial navigation

Gyroscopes

Accelerometers

Sensor modeling

Calibration

Navigation analysis

GPS/GNSS aided navigation

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Technical communication

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Master's degree in engineering discipline

Strumenti

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. seeks a Principal Inertial Navigation & IMU SME to lead development, integration, evaluation, and qualification of advanced positioning, navigation, and timing solutions for military aviation.

You will oversee IMU selection, perform performance analyses, and coordinate lab, ground, and flight tests while mentoring teams and engaging with customers and government stakeholders.