VectorNav Technologies

Designs and manufactures inertial navigation sensors

Navigation Engineer

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeDallas, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or mechanical engineering is required.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are required.
A background in or experience working with inertial navigation systems, GPS/GNSS technology, modern estimation—particularly Kalman filters—and/or modern controls is required.
Experience working with or troubleshooting hardware and electronics, especially robotics, UAVs, gimbal systems, and/or other end applications common to VectorNav customers, is required.
Familiarity with MATLAB, C/C++, Python, or other software languages is required.

Responsibilities

Work directly with customers throughout design, development, and deployment by email, phone, and on-site visits to ensure VectorNav products meet their navigation needs.
Create and improve tools to enable customers, such as software, reference designs, and application notes.
Attend trade shows and customer visits with the sales team to interface with potential customers and determine whether VectorNav systems fit their applications.
Collaborate with product development teams to incorporate customer feedback and improve VectorNav hardware and software products.
Interface with sales and production teams to ensure a quality customer experience throughout the product life cycle.

Desired Qualifications

A master's degree in aerospace engineering or mechanical engineering is preferred.

Navigation Engineer

VectorNav Technologies · Dallas, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-14

Workplace: on_site

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.

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About the Company

VectorNav Technologies

Designs and manufactures inertial navigation sensors

VectorNav Technologies designs and manufactures high-performance navigation and inertial sensors for military, aerospace, marine, and robotics needs. Its products, such as IMUs, AHRS, and GNSS/INS, fuse accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data with Kalman filtering and GNSS updates to provide continuous position, velocity, and attitude information. The company focuses on compact, low SWaP-C sensor packages that are easy to integrate into unmanned vehicles, robotics, and mapping systems, giving reliable PNT data in challenging environments. Its target is to deliver precise, dependable navigation data that enables autonomous systems to operate safely and effectively across global applications.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Dallas, TX
Founded: 2008

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