Navigation Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

VectorNav's GPS and inertial navigation technology enables customers around the world to push the envelope in their respective fields, ranging from UAVs to walking robots to self-driving cars. Achieving success requires dedicated, intelligent and insightful engineers who can adapt, communicate, and apply their expert understanding of navigation systems to the application at hand.

• Work directly with customers throughout their design, development, and deployment process via email, phone & on-site visits to ensure VectorNav's products solve their navigation needs
• Create and improve tools to better enable customers (eg. software, reference designs, application notes)
• Attend trade shows and customer visits with sales team to interface with potential customers and determine the fitness of VectorNav's systems in their application
• Collaborate with product development teams to incorporate customer feedback to improve VectorNav hardware and software products
• Interface with sales and production teams to ensure a quality customer experience throughout the product life-cycle

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering (Master's preferred)
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Background in or experience working with inertial navigation systems, GPS/GNSS technology, modern estimation (particularly Kalman filters), and/or modern controls
• Experience working with or troubleshooting hardware and electronics (especially robotics, UAV’s, gimbal systems and/or other end applications common to VectorNav customers)
• Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++, Python or other software languages

Benefits

• Standard Benefits Full medical, vision & dental insurance, vacation time, holidays, sick leave, 401k.
• Training & Development Learn from the most innovative and talented team of engineers in the industry. Transferring the 100+ years of combined experience from our senior engineers to our new team members is a top priority.
• Perks Company-wide catered lunch every Friday. Fully stocked break room complete with billiards, ping pong, foosball & more.