Senior Navigation Engineer

Position Overview

Lead spacecraft navigation for all mission phases, including formulation, tracking architecture development, estimation approach, and operations.

Develop and validate advanced Kalman filter configurations for complex regimes, such as multi-body, low-thrust, and weak observability scenarios.

Serve as primary navigation lead for flight operations prep, including console support, real-time orbit determination, and anomaly response.

Mentor junior engineers and drive mission-critical navigation analysis, system-level trades, and verification/validation activities.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of professional experience in spacecraft navigation, orbit determination, or closely related flight dynamics roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrated leadership of OD campaigns or major navigation tasks, including filter setup, force models, and tracking strategies.
• Proven ability to design and adapt Kalman filters for new dynamical and tracking regimes, including dynamic, bias, stochastic, and consider parameters.
• Significant experience with navigation/astrodynamics tools (e.g., MONTE, FreeFlyer, ODTK, GMAT, STK) in flight or flight-like applications.

Pay

$132k-174,900k/yea