Neros
State Estimation & Navigation Lead
$192K–$268K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; includes experience leading engineers as a manager or technical lead.
About the job
Leads a team while developing and fielding onboard state estimation and navigation systems for Neros aircraft, including GPS-denied navigation and performance measurement across the autonomy organization.
What you'll do
- Own the technical roadmap and interfaces for vehicle and target state estimation, including calibrated uncertainty.
- Architect, implement, validate, and field navigation capabilities across aircraft using onboard sensors and embedded compute.
- Hire, manage, and mentor engineers; coordinate with other teams and support flight testing and deployment.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience in state estimation, navigation, sensor fusion, or GNC, including experience leading engineers as a manager or technical lead.
- Ownership of a state estimation or navigation system from architecture through deployment on production hardware.
- Expertise in estimation theory and sensor fusion, including IMU, camera, GNSS, and range or altimetry sensing.
- Experience with GPS-denied or GPS-degraded navigation, quantitative validation, real-hardware debugging, and strong C++ and Python.
Nice to have
- Fielded visual inertial odometry or terrain relative navigation; target state estimation or tracking experience.
- Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, Betaflight, or custom flight control systems; multi-platform autonomy, evaluation standards, or startup/ITAR/EAR experience.
Pay
$191,500 – $268,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
EKF, UKF, C++, Python, IMU, GNSS, PX4, ArduPilot
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