Senior Navigation Engineer

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Department Summary:

MITRE is at the leading edge in solving problems in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). PNT systems, such as GPS, atomic clocks, and inertial guidance, provide vital services to humanity in a wide array of fields, including emergency services, power grids, trade, and more. If you are an engineer or physicist with a desire to learn at a world respected PNT leader, come join us at MITRE, a not-for-profit company dedicated to solving problems for a safer world.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Modeling, simulation, and analysis of PNT technologies
• Testing of PNT technologies and data analysis of experimental results
• Play a key technical role on one or more projects within MITRE's existing PNT work program

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field to be obtained May of 2026
• Experience with Guidance, Navigation, and control concepts
• Experience with GNSS signal processing
• Experience with Designing implementing and analyzing estimators and/or controllers for various applications (e.g. Kalman filters for orbit determination)
• Experience with MATLAB, Pythin, C++ or other modeling and data analysis
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GNSS threat detection and mitigation
• Experience with array signal processing
• Extensive professional engagement (e.g. recent publication, conference presentations)
• Ability to obtain Top Secret or higher clearance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 Annual

Work Location Type:
Hybrid

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