Inversion Space
Staff GNC Engineer (State Estimation)
$161K–$221K
Playa Vista, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- Typically, 9+ years of applicable experience developing and testing estimation, tracking, or GNC algorithms and systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with ITAR.
About the job
Develop state estimation, tracking, and behavior-prediction systems for external objects and platforms observed by aerospace vehicles, integrating learned models and classical methods into simulations and flight software.
What you'll do
- Develop algorithms to estimate and track external systems and predict their behavior, state, and intent.
- Train, validate, and deploy neural network models; build metrics, tools, and datasets to evaluate performance.
- Integrate estimation and prediction algorithms into 3-DOF and 6-DOF simulations and real-time flight software.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with behavior or trajectory prediction in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or similar multi-agent domains, including probabilistic prediction of agent intent.
- Experience with modern deep learning frameworks and training infrastructure, estimating and tracking dynamic objects from limited or noisy sensor data, and implementing neural networks for prediction or tracking.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with real-time embedded deployment, estimation theory, multi-target tracking, trajectory optimization, flight simulation, or reentry, hypersonic, or orbital systems.
Pay
$161,000-$221,000 USD base salary
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Python, MATLAB, C++
AI focus
Train, validate, and deploy neural networks for trajectory and behavior prediction, integrating learned models with classical filtering approaches.
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