Senior Systems Engineer - Position, Navigation & Timing (Onsite)

About the role

Join a small, high-impact team in Collins Aerospace’s Applied Research & Technology organization focused on pioneering alternative position, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions for next-generation defense platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver advanced PNT software and system solutions that balance performance, SWaP, cost, reliability, and security.
• Rapidly develop prototypes across simulations, lab environments, and hardware-in-the-loop setups to evaluate concepts and reduce risk.
• Run experiments and simulations, analyze results, and iterate quickly to mature concepts into robust implementations.
• Capture designs, architectures, and test insights to ensure your work can be reviewed, validated, and extended across teams.
• Work with project and program leads to manage technical risk, align plans, and communicate status and tradeoffs clearly.
• Support lab, field, and flight test activities to demonstrate capability, validate performance, and inform design improvements.
• Contribute to proposals, white papers, and technical briefings that drive future opportunities and research directions.
• Ability to travel up to 15% as required to support project, customer, and business needs.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience with PNT systems or navigation algorithms, including sensor fusion, timing architectures, estimation techniques (e.g., Kalman filtering), inertial navigation integration, or related GNSS technologies.
• Familiarity with GNSS fundamentals and with PNT techniques for resilient or GPS-denied operation, including methods that use RF signals or satellite communications.
• Proficiency in algorithm development and implementation using tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, Python, HDL languages, or AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• A generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy (pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection)
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program