Navigation Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level)

Boeing • Huntington Beach, CA

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About The Position

Navigation Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) seeks an Associate or Mid-Level Navigation Engineer on our Electrostatically Supported Gyro Navigator (ESGN) Replacement team in Huntington Beach, California. ESGN is part of Boeing’s Intelligence Systems organization, which supports a wide range of customers through diverse advanced intelligence and navigation system developments. Position Responsibilities: Support development of cutting-edge models, simulation tools, and navigation strategies for systems using sensor aided navigation techniques for a variety of applications in undersea environments. Evaluate system level requirements and establish navigation system design requirements to support design realization. Interact with some of the world’s top navigation equipment suppliers, military experts, and civilian experts while participating in team efforts to design products and review and analyze data to ensure compliance with requirements. Support developing and analyzing navigation system mechanizations, error and performance models, and component error budgets. Collect and review data from hardware-in-the-loop and system and component tests to measure and validate navigation performance against design requirements. Support candidate sensor system evaluation to increase navigation performance, decrease cost, and ensure compliance with requirements. Analyze system and component test results and identify trade opportunities to optimize performance, cost, or other attributes. This position requires obtaining a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim or final U.S. Secret clearance post-start is required.

Requirements

• 1+ years of related experience.
• Experience developing or using modeling and simulation tools such as Python or MATLAB/Simulink.
• Experience in software development and programming.
• Willingness and ability to travel 10% of the time domestically and internationally.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• This position requires obtaining a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim or final U.S. Secret clearance post-start is required.
• This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Nice To Haves

• Active U.S. Security Clearance
• Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) experience.
• Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) experience.
• Programming skills in languages such as C/C++ with a strong foundation in software development practices.
• Systems design experience including implementing algorithms in real-time systems.
• Demonstrated performance on development programs and the ability to resolve technical issues in complex environments.
• Knowledge of estimation theory, optimal estimation (e.g. Kalman filtering).
• Knowledge of sensor aided navigation or inertial navigation.
• Knowledge of advanced mathematical principles as applied to aerospace analysis and modeling such as transform methods, computational geometry, numerical linear algebra, optimization, computational math, numerical analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Experience in an Agile work environment.

Responsibilities

• Support development of cutting-edge models, simulation tools, and navigation strategies for systems using sensor aided navigation techniques for a variety of applications in undersea environments.
• Evaluate system level requirements and establish navigation system design requirements to support design realization.
• Interact with some of the world’s top navigation equipment suppliers, military experts, and civilian experts while participating in team efforts to design products and review and analyze data to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Support developing and analyzing navigation system mechanizations, error and performance models, and component error budgets.
• Collect and review data from hardware-in-the-loop and system and component tests to measure and validate navigation performance against design requirements.
• Support candidate sensor system evaluation to increase navigation performance, decrease cost, and ensure compliance with requirements.
• Analyze system and component test results and identify trade opportunities to optimize performance, cost, or other attributes.

Benefits

• Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees