Senior Autonomy and Navigation Engineer
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About the Position
Senior Autonomy and Navigation Engineer
Gauting, Germany
Full-time
Permanent employee
Why Us?
You'll join a company where your work has visible impact from day one.
You'll work directly with world-class engineers, scientists, aerospace experts, and entrepreneurs building technologies that have never existed before.
Every day you'll collaborate with people who genuinely believe Europe can lead the next generation of autonomous intelligence.
We're not maintaining legacy systems.
We're creating the infrastructure future generations will depend on.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Relocation support
- Individual learning budget
- Modern aerospace campus with an on-site canteen and gym
- Free beverages
- Lunch support
- Tax-free employee benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Regular remote work
- 30 days of vacation
Your Mission
As a Senior Autonomy and Navigation Engineer, you own the navigation and autonomy stack that enables NeuralAgent platforms to operate where GNSS cannot be trusted, including denied, jammed, or spoofed environments.
- Design, implement, and field-validate robust state estimation for UxS platforms.
- Architect the onboard autonomy stack, including localization, degraded-mode behaviors, and failsafes.
- Lead sensor fusion across IMU, vision, LiDAR/radar, barometric, and opportunistic sources.
- Take prototypes from simulation through HIL to flight test and act as technical lead in test campaigns.
- Support with mentoring less experienced team members and review theses and code in the navigation area.
- Serve as a steady, reliable technical anchor for the team - someone others can count on to help navigate ambiguous or difficult technical challenges to a solid resolution.
Your Profile
- Masters degree in robotics or aerospace software.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in robotics, aerospace software; field-deployed navigation experience.
- Deep state-estimation expertise including EKF/UKF, factor graphs, VIO/SLAM.
- Advanced proficiency in Python, C++ are a must, experience with Rust is highly appreciated.
- Hands-on experience with ROS 2 and internals of PX4 or ArduPilot.
- Real hardware and flight-test experience.
- You are a strong team player.
- You have first experience in technical leadership.
- You are used to work in high pace project mode.
- Excellent communication skills in English; German language skills are a plus.
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with GNSS spoofing/jamming detection, alternative PNT, terrain- or vision-based georeferencing.
- Experience in defense or safety-critical domain.
- Eligibility for security vetting.
About Us
At NeuralAgent, we are building coordination and AI-Operating layer at edge that orchestrates the autonomous systems and networks across space, air, ground, maritime, and underwater domains.
We believe the future will be powered by decentralized intelligence-where autonomous systems collaborate, make decisions, and adapt in real time wherever the mission takes place.
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