# Navigation Engineer

**Company:** [VectorNav Technologies](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/5qQLSWJD3jqgxPxpyhe4so.md)
**Location:** Dallas, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

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.  

-   Work directly with customers throughout their design, development, and deployment process via email, phone & on-site visits to ensure VectorNav's products solve their navigation needs
-   Create and improve tools to better enable customers (eg. software, reference designs, application notes)
-   Attend trade shows and customer visits with sales team to interface with potential customers and determine the fitness of VectorNav's systems in their application
-   Collaborate with product development teams to incorporate customer feedback to improve VectorNav hardware and software products
-   Interface with sales and production teams to ensure a quality customer experience throughout the product life-cycle

## Requirements

-   Bachelor’s degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering (Master's preferred)
-   Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
-   Background in or experience working with inertial navigation systems, GPS/GNSS technology, modern estimation (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)
-   Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++, Python or other software languages

## Benefits

-   **Standard Benefits** Full medical, vision & dental insurance, vacation time, holidays, sick leave, 401k.
-   **Training & Development** Learn from the most innovative and talented team of engineers in the industry. Transferring the 100+ years of combined experience from our senior engineers to our new team members is a top priority.
-   **Perks** Company-wide catered lunch every Friday. Fully stocked break room complete with billiards, ping pong, foosball & more.