Navigation Engineer

🕒 May 7

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Wing

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51 - 200 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🚀 Aerospace

💰 Corporate Round on 2019-03

eCommerce • Logistics • Aerospace

Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet that specializes in delivery solutions through the use of drones. It offers an innovative on-demand delivery service, providing consumers with a fast and efficient way to receive items ranging from groceries to medicine. Wing's drones are designed, manufactured, and deployed to meet high safety standards, and the company has successfully completed over 350,000 commercial deliveries across multiple continents.

📋 Description

• Create and own innovative and reliable Guidance, Navigation, and Control solutions for our autonomous aircraft fleet to drive business impact and commercial success. • Provide expertise in various sensor modalities, including GNSS and inertial systems, and their integration into broader autonomous aircraft systems. • Perform analysis on GNSS sensor data ranging from prototypes to large-scale production operations to inform requirements and designs and implement solutions to improve performance for business impact and commercial success. • Create analyses, establish requirements, write and review design documents, implement code, and perform verification and validation of productionized flightworthy software in MATLAB, Python, and/or C++. • Share deep technical knowledge with the broader team on GNSS and inertial navigation modalities, including design, implementation, verification and validation techniques. • Collaborate cross-functionally between aircraft software, perception, hardware, and test teams. • Develop filtering solutions, such as Kalman Filters and other linear and non-linear filters, to fuse information from a variety of sensor technologies. • Conduct trade studies for sensor and algorithm designs. Perform risk assessments of different types of algorithms as applied to real-world scenarios. • Have ownership and cognisance of systems throughout the entire life-cycle: concept, design, implementation, lab and flight testing and evaluation, fielding, and support.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for aerospace systems. • MS degree, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Aerospace, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field. • Experience working on multi-sensor fusion navigation systems for aerospace systems, including GNSS/INS integration. • Experience writing embedded safety critical software in C++, Matlab, and/or Python. • Technical depth in at least two of the following areas: aircraft dynamics and control, multi-modal sensor fusion, contingency management, GNSS position engine development, INS/GNSS navigation system development, UAV path planning algorithms, and/or GNC simulation and data analysis. • Expertise in Kalman Filtering and other estimation methods.

🏖️ Benefits

• Wing is an equal opportunity employer • No discrimination based on various grounds including race, gender, disability, etc. • Accommodation during interview process available for disabilities or special needs.