Senior Navigation & Sensor Fusion Engineer

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA seeks an experienced Navigation/Localization Engineer to develop robust sensor fusion for GNSS/IMU/LIDAR/radar/camera data. You will design, test, and integrate navigation solutions for Omen and Thunder platforms, focusing on operation in GNSS-contested environments.

You will collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams, mentor junior engineers, and help evolve calibration and validation pipelines across the stack.

Qualifications

• Experience developing/maintaining navigation/localization algorithms for autonomous vehicles, drones, or similar.
• Proficient in estimation techniques, including Kalman filtering.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement robust sensor fusion to combine GNSS, IMU, LIDAR, radar, and camera data.
• Test and iterate navigation/flight-control algorithms in field and simulations.
• Develop calibration procedures for sensor suites used in navigation.
• Collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams to integrate navigation solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Kalman filtering

State estimation

Sensor fusion concepts

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Security clearance

Education

MS/PhD in Robotics/CS/Math/Physics

Tools

Python

Rust

Nix

CUDA

NVIDIA ecosystem

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA seeks an experienced Navigation/Localization Engineer to develop robust sensor fusion for GNSS/IMU/LIDAR/radar/camera data. You will design, test, and integrate navigation solutions for Omen and Thunder platforms, focusing on operation in GNSS-contested environments.

You will collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams, mentor junior engineers, and help evolve calibration and validation pipelines across the stack.