Senior Nav & Localization Engineer for Autonomous Flight

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an experienced Navigation/Localization Engineer to join our Maneuver Dominance team. You will develop, integrate, and test navigation solutions for platforms such as Omen and Thunder, operating in GNSS-contested environments and across sensor fusion, SLAM, and machine learning.

Work includes system-level design, calibration procedures, simulation, data replay, and field testing, with collaboration across autonomy, flight controls, and hardware

Qualifications

• Experience designing and testing navigation/localization algorithms for autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with Kalman filtering and related state estimation methods.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and work with cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement sensor fusion techniques across GNSS, IMU, LIDAR, radar, and camera data.
• Test and iterate navigation algorithms in field and simulated environments.
• Develop simulation and data replay pipelines to evaluate localization performance.
• Design fault-tolerant navigation algorithms for on-board compute constraints.
• Collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams to integrate navigation solutions.

Skills

Navigation localization algorithms

Kalman filtering

Problem-solving

Communication skills

US Secret security clearance

Travel up to 25%

Sensor fusion

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field

Tools

Python

Rust

Nix

CUDA

NVIDIA ecosystem

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an experienced Navigation/Localization Engineer to join our Maneuver Dominance team. You will develop, integrate, and test navigation solutions for platforms such as Omen and Thunder, operating in GNSS-contested environments and across sensor fusion, SLAM, and machine learning.

Work includes system-level design, calibration procedures, simulation, data replay, and field testing, with collaboration across autonomy, flight controls, and hardware