Senior Robotics Navigation Engineer — Sensor Fusion Lead

Linuxconfig; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in navigation and localization to advance autonomous flight systems. You will develop, integrate, and test navigation solutions for platforms like Omen and Thunder, working across sensor fusion, GNSS, IMU, and perception stacks.

Collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams; mentor junior engineers; contribute to simulation, data replay, and flight-test workflows to ensure robust

Qualifications

• Experience developing navigation/localization algorithms for autonomous systems or robotics.
• Strong background in estimation techniques and sensor fusion.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and break them into actionable steps.
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Implement robust sensor fusion to combine GNSS, IMU, LIDAR, radar, and camera data for improved navigation.
• Test, analyze performance, and iterate on algorithms and flight control designs in the field.
• Develop simulation and testing environments to evaluate localization under varying conditions.
• Design fault-tolerant algorithms optimized for onboard compute and GNSS-contested operation.
• Collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams to integrate navigation solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Kalman filtering

Sensor fusion

Navigation principles

SLAM

Linux

Python

Rust

Nix

CUDA

NVIDIA ecosystem

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 a Senior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in navigation and localization to advance autonomous flight systems. You will develop, integrate, and test navigation solutions for platforms like Omen and Thunder, working across sensor fusion, GNSS, IMU, and perception stacks.

Collaborate with autonomy, flight controls, and hardware teams; mentor junior engineers; contribute to simulation, data replay, and flight-test workflows to ensure robust