Scientist- Inertial Navigation

At Aerosphere Power and Navigation, we're committed to attracting and nurturing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about their work. Our employees share a common purpose-supporting our customers' missions while pursuing their own professional growth. We foster an inclusive and engaging workplace culture where innovation, collaboration, and work-life balance thrive. Core to our values is a steadfast commitment to excellence, community engagement, and integrity in everything we do.

Aerosphere Power and Navigation Corporation located in Budd Lake, NJ is a leading independent provider of advanced inertial navigation and power solutions for the aerospace, defense, commercial, and industrial sectors. As pioneers in fiber optic gyros, and ring laser gyros, we drive innovation across a wide range of navigation applications and power‑conversion applications.

We are seeking a Scientist to serve as a senior technical authority for advanced inertial sensing and navigation technologies, with an emphasis on Ring Laser Gyro (RLG) and Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) systems. This role combines scientific expertise, hands‑on investigation, and cross‑functional technical leadership to advance sensor performance, guide next‑generation product development, and resolve complex technical challenges.

The successful candidate will help define technology strategy, lead research and development initiatives, and translate scientific principles into reliable, manufacturable products. Working across engineering, operations, business development, and customer organizations, this individual will influence technical decisions from early concept through qualification and production. This is a senior individual‑contributor role with broad responsibility for technical leadership, mentorship, and innovation.

• Serve as a principal technical authority for inertial sensor physics, gyro performance, and navigation-system error mechanisms across RLG and FOG based product lines.
• Define and guide technology roadmaps, research priorities, and development strategies aligned with customer needs, product objectives, and long‑term business goals.
• Lead scientific investigations and feasibility studies for new sensing concepts, performance improvements, and advanced navigation capabilities.
• Develop and validate analytical models, simulations, and error budgets linking sensor physics, optical and electronic behavior, environmental effects, and system‑level performance.
• Guide the development of signal processing, control, calibration, compensation, and estimation approaches that improve accuracy, stability, and repeatability.
• Lead resolution of complex performance issues involving bias stability, scale factor, nonlinearity, noise, thermal sensitivity, vibration sensitivity, aging, and other error sources.
• Design and oversee experiments that establish physical mechanisms, validate models, and demonstrate measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with optical, electrical, mechanical, software, systems, test, and manufacturing engineers to translate research findings into practical product designs.
• Provide technical oversight for architecture reviews, design trade studies, development gates, and qualification‑readiness assessments.
• Partner with manufacturing and quality teams to improve process capability, production yield, calibration efficiency, and long‑term product consistency.
• Support customer technical discussions, proposals, research opportunities, and external technical collaborations.
• Develop technical reports, invention disclosures, and publications, as appropriate, while protecting proprietary information and intellectual property.
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