Senior IMU & Inertial Navigation Expert

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S)

Dayton (OH)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Competitive salary

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Job summary

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S) seeks a Principal Inertial Navigation SME to support development, integration, evaluation, and qualification of advanced positioning, navigation, and timing solutions for military aviation.

The candidate will act as technical authority for navigation-grade IMUs used on manned aircraft, guiding requirements, design, calibration, verification, and field support, with emphasis on RLG/FOG technologies and GPS-denied navigation.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or a related technical field.
At least 10 years of relevant professional experience with IMUs, inertial navigation systems, integrated navigation solutions, or closely related technologies.
Demonstrated proficiency with navigation-grade and/or high-performance tactical-grade IMUs.
Strong knowledge of gyroscopes, accelerometers, inertial-navigation principles, sensor-error modeling, calibration, and navigation-performance analysis.
Experience supporting IMUs or inertial navigation systems intended for military aviation or comparably demanding aerospace applications.
Experience integrating IMUs into embedded, airborne, military, or other safety-critical navigation systems.
Experience with GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation and navigation-filter concepts.
Ability to assess gyro and accelerometer performance, including bias, drift, scale-factor error, noise, misalignment, environmental sensitivity, and reliability.
Ability to interpret and develop technical requirements, performance specifications, interface-control documentation, test procedures, and verification criteria.
Experience analyzing laboratory, environmental, ground-test, qualification, or flight-test data.
Strong technical writing, presentation, and customer-facing communication skills.
U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the position.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical subject matter expert for inertial sensors, IMUs, inertial navigation systems, and integrated navigation solutions.
Provide technical leadership throughout the IMU and navigation-system lifecycle, including requirements development, architecture, design, integration, calibration, verification, qualification, production, and fielded-system support.
Evaluate navigation-grade and tactical-grade IMUs for suitability across manned military aviation platforms.
Lead or support IMU selection activities, technical evaluations, market research, alternatives analyses, and technology trade studies.
Assess gyro and accelerometer technologies, error sources, calibration approaches, navigation performance, reliability, producibility, and suitability for specific military aircraft applications.
Analyze IMU performance characteristics, including gyro and accelerometer bias, bias stability and repeatability, scale-factor error, misalignment and cross-axis sensitivity, angle random walk and velocity random walk, noise and drift, temperature sensitivity, vibration and environmental effects.
Assess navigation performance during GPS/GNSS degradation or denial, including free-inertial, blended, and coasting performance.
Support the integration of IMUs with GPS/GNSS receivers, navigation processors, Kalman filters, mission computers, and other navigation-aiding sources.
Develop and review technical requirements, performance specifications, interface-control documentation, verification criteria, qualification strategies, test plans, and technical reports.
Plan and support laboratory, hardware-in-the-loop, ground, environmental, qualification, and flight-test activities.
Analyze test and flight data, identify performance shortfalls, determine root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
Evaluate supplier designs, technical proposals, product roadmaps, manufacturing approaches, and claimed system performance.
Support the resolution of technical and production issues involving inertial sensors, electronics, embedded software, navigation algorithms, calibration, or system-level integration.
Support technical reviews, trade studies, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, qualification reviews, and customer technical interchange meetings.
Communicate complex navigation concepts, technical risks, and recommended solutions to engineering teams, program leadership, customers, and government stakeholders.
Mentor engineering personnel and provide technical guidance across multidisciplinary teams.