Guidance, Navigation, Control Engineer – GNC

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🐻 Alaska, California – Remote

🐻 Alaska – Remote 🏄 California – Remote

💵 $240k - $290k / year

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OKSI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1991

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $206.5k Grant - Opto-Knowledge Systems on 2024-01

Defense • Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence

OKSI is a defense- and aerospace-focused sensor and autonomy company that develops electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) seekers, precision guidance systems, GPS-denied navigation (e. g. , OMNInav), and machine-learning-enhanced hardware and software. For 35+ years the company has produced advanced computer-vision and AI/ML solutions, modeling & simulation tools, and unique sensor packages for high-speed events, hypersonics, combustion diagnostics, space and earth observation, and environmental sensing. OKSI primarily serves government and defense customers, holding 450+ government contracts and delivering capabilities for autonomy, precision guidance, and environmental monitoring.

📋 Description

• Target Tracking, Estimation & Fusion: Design and implement multi-target tracking pipelines for static and moving targets • Develop nonlinear estimators (EKF, UKF, IMM) for target state, relative geometry, and passive ranging solutions • Integrate multi-modal sensor fusion across EO, IR, and inertial sources; RF where the platform provides it • Own lock-on-after-launch (LOAL) logic: acquisition, track confirmation, and handoff into terminal guidance • Terminal Guidance & Seeker Algorithms: Build image-based ATD/ATR chains feeding closed-loop guidance • Develop and evaluate terminal guidance laws against miss distance, seeker field-of-view, and control authority constraints • Harden endgame performance in real-world conditions • GPS-Denied Navigation: Create visual-inertial navigation delivering drift-free, absolute positional awareness without GPS • Characterize, align, and calibrate INS/IMU systems on low-cost inertial hardware • Implement georegistration, photogrammetry, and map-matching approaches that bound inertial drift • Real-Time Software: Write modern, object-oriented C++ implementations of all algorithms • Prototype in Python or MATLAB, then carry it to flight-quality code • Simulation, Test & Analysis: Exercise algorithms in physics-based simulation environments • Run Monte Carlo and hardware-in-the-loop campaigns to validate performance • Support captive-carry and live flight test; own the anomaly investigation when telemetry disagrees with the model • Technical Leadership: Set the algorithm architecture and mentor engineers implementing alongside you • Engage directly with customers and partners: technical interchanges, live demos, proposals.

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related field. • 8+ years developing estimation, tracking, GNC, or seeker algorithms for aerospace or defense systems • Proven expertise in nonlinear estimation (EKF, UKF, IMM or equivalent) • Production experience with multi-target tracking, data association, and track management algorithms • Proficiency in real-time C++ for embedded systems • Experience with sensor fusion across multiple modalities (EO, IR, inertial, RF) • Demonstrated capability shipping algorithm code to hardware under SWaP-C constraints

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully paid by the employer for employees • Three weeks of vacation to start • Automatic company contribution to 401K – 5% of earned wages (no matching required) • Educational assistance and professional development opportunities