Navigation Engineer Intern: Summer 2026

VectorNav Technologies•Dallas, TX

About The Position

VectorNav's GPS and inertial navigation technology enables customers around the world to push the envelope in their respective fields, ranging from UAVs to walking robots to self-driving cars. Achieving success requires dedicated, intelligent and insightful engineers who can adapt, communicate, and apply their expert understanding of navigation systems to the application at hand. Interns and/or co-ops will work directly with the customer engineering, system test, and product development teams to support their respective efforts, including: Validating performance of new sensors and algorithms in hardware Implementing and testing new techniques in a simulation environment Emulating end-user applications to characterize performance and define best-practices Developing software tools to support customer and in-house testing

Requirements

Undergraduate or graduate degree in-progress in aerospace engineering or similar field
Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
Coursework or experience working with inertial navigation systems, GPS/GNSS technology, estimation algorithms (particularly Kalman filters), and/or modern controls
Experience working with or troubleshooting hardware and electronics (especially robotics, UAV’s, gimbal systems and/or other end applications common to VectorNav customers)
Strong programming skills (Matlab, C++, or Python)

Responsibilities

Validating performance of new sensors and algorithms in hardware
Implementing and testing new techniques in a simulation environment
Emulating end-user applications to characterize performance and define best-practices
Developing software tools to support customer and in-house testing