Lead Navigations Engineer

Actalent
📍 Los Angeles, CA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 04, 2026

Job Description

Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Navigations Engineer to design, prototype, and analyze navigation/localization algorithms for extraplanetary mobility systems. This role is pivotal in developing mission-critical navigation systems for a manned lunar rover, set to be driven by the NASA Artemis crew on the moon in 2028. The position involves working closely with the flight software team to build real-time navigation algorithms from scratch, integrating them onto hardware, and testing them in varied environments.
Responsibilities

+ Design, prototype, and analyze navigation/localization algorithms using data from motor resolvers, IMUs, star trackers, cameras, and lidars.

+ Support the development of a GNC simulation, sensor models, and tooling for analysis, verification, and validation of rover localization algorithms.

+ Analyze localization algorithm performance under real-world conditions, including faulty sensors, invalid data, data d...

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Job Details

  • Location Los Angeles, CA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date July 04, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 09, 2026