Xona Space Systems
Navigation Algorithms Engineer
Burlingame, California · Internship
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About the role
- We're looking for a Navigation Algorithms Engineer to join our Ground Software team.
- This role is a great fit for someone with a solid foundation in statistics and estimation who wants to apply it to real satellite navigation systems.
Responsibilities
- Estimation Pipelines: Collaborate on and help validate Precise Point Positioning (PPP) algorithms and other estimation pipelines across the navigation stack.
- Collaboration & Growth: You'll collaborate closely with our navigation engineering team to ship early-stage prototypes and develop them into core pieces of our production pipeline
- Collaborate on and help validate Precise Point Positioning (PPP) algorithms and other estimation pipelines across the navigation stack.
Requirements
- Familiarity programming in both C++ and Python.
- Internship, academic research, or project-based experience with navigation, estimation, or signal processing is welcomed in place of industry experience.
- Familiarity with GNSS receiver internal mechanics or the GNSS signal processing chain.
- Familiarity with GNSS data formats (RINEX, SP3, RTCM).
- Familiarity with orbital mechanics, reference frames, and time systems.
- For U.K. Roles: To comply with U.K. regulations, this role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
- To comply with U.K. regulations, this role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
Benefits
- you'll build tools that keep an eye on constellation health and work on the core estimation pipelines, including Precise Point Positioning (PPP), that make centimeter-level accuracy possible.
- Develop tools to monitor the health, availability, and performance of the Pulsar constellation and GNSS signals in real time.
Company info
- Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
- With Pulsar - the world's most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit - Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.
Visa & Work Authorization
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