Senior​/Principal Electrical Engineer, Navigation - Onsite

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Organization 05449, Autonomy for Hypersonics, is actively seeking a Navigation Engineer who has significant interest in estimation, sensing, and applied R&D for national security missions to join our team!

The successful candidate will have R&D experience in sensing, hardware, and/or filtering for dynamic systems, the desire to team and grow in technical leadership, and formal training in either

Electrical/Aerospace Engineering or a related engineering field, such as Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Mechanical Engineering. Autonomy for Hypersonics supports a large range of Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) to apply innovative conceptual ideas to both near-term and future warfighter needs.

On any given day, one may be called upon to:

• Develop and analyze novel estimation/sensor fusion approaches and algorithms for complex national security mission spaces
• Collaborate with a team of researchers, engineers, and technologists to develop innovative, integrated navigation technologies and to mature them from concept to simulation to flight tests
• Mature low-TRL technologies toward successful launch vehicle demonstrations (i.e., flight tests)
• Design and implement GNSS signal processing and RF chains
• Implement real-time flight software implementations of GNSS receiver solutions

This position will include simulation, laboratory, and field-testing operations. Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite at Sandia's laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, including the Flight Dynamics Laboratory. Some travel is required for this position.

$114,000 - $227,500

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• The ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

The ideal Electrical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Coursework and/or 1+ years experience with modern navigation systems (e.g., GNSS architectures/receivers, sensor fusion, inertial measurement systems, Kalman filtering, alternative global…