Navigation Engineer Job Description

Navigation Engineer Job Description

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Navigation engineer provides system engineering direction and customer support for use of GPS and GPS/inertial navigation products in customer guidance and control system.

Navigation Engineer Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Support the development and launch of new and enhanced vehicle connected services via mobile phone platforms (ie
Candidate must have prior experience leading a project from conception to launch including effective management of software suppliers, testing and troubleshooting procedures, and leadership in the resolution of issues
Support the development and innovation of vehicle navigation system location based features
Investigate available technology to support prototype development
Support efforts to handoff new features to product development team
The Design & Release (D&R) Engineer responsible for the development, validation and release of embedded navigation map content
Manage the development, validation, release and production of the navigation memory card product for all global sync programs
Taking part in the transformational effort, (applied research, experimental development, spikes,exploratory testing)
Driving initiatives that contribute in development of software that is efficient, re-usable and reliable
Support developing SW design, if necessary also taking inter-connected functions and existing dependencies to other subcomponents into account, or rather the integration into an overall system while keeping the operational development guidelines in mind

Navigation Engineer Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Navigation Engineer

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: FAA, STD, MIL, CPE, GN&C, ATLO, SAASM, DFSS, HUD, AIMS

Education for Navigation Engineer

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the navigation engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Technology, Math, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

Skills for Navigation Engineer

Desired skills for navigation engineer include:

Kalman filtering
Optimization methods
Software defined radio platforms and design flow
IMU Gyros & INS/GPS systems
Practices in their area of expertise
Procedures
Their technical/professional discipline possess a comprehensive understanding and ability to apply associated standards
Inertial measurement
Conduct trades studies and performance analysis at the systems level
Development

Desired experience for navigation engineer includes:

Develop advanced linking technologies on SYNC to interface with mobile applications
Effectively write, manage, and maintain product use-cases and software specifications
Experience with map data is a plus
Experience with video game rendering architectures is a plus
Benchmark the industry to understand the competitive landscape
Develop feature prototypes for internal evaluation

Navigation Engineer Examples

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Navigation Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a navigation engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for navigation engineer
  • Document feature requirements
  • Develop new feature roadmap
  • Support feature testing and validation
  • The D&R engineer is responsible for designing parts that comply with Corporate and Local Requirements considering the applicable specifications (Worldwide customer requirements, engineering specifications and systems design specifications manufacturing and assembly requirements)
  • Maintain release documentation and schedules
  • Support quality improvement and cost reduction efforts
  • Develop and specify the navigation map update process for future sync embedded navigation products
  • Maintenance and refactoring of existing code,sharing progress and impediments (daily stand-up meeting) and addressing them with your teammates
  • Taking part in the architecture
  • Contributing to the documentation, (deliverables, team's wiki)
Qualifications for navigation engineer
  • Experience debugging software in an embedded, multiprocessor environment
  • Functional knowledge of Vehicle Communications System
  • Working knowledge of vehicle diagnostic tools
  • Helping select your next teammates
  • Experienced working with continuous integration tools Hudson, Jenkins
  • Continuum, Bamboo, Thought Works Go
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Navigation Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of navigation engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for navigation engineer
  • Keep abreast of technical development both within and outside of the company
  • Designing and developing products & solution based on requirements
  • Engaging with internal and external customers for requirements, changing requests and incidents
  • Pro-actively diagnosing, isolating and implementing changes to improve software quality
  • Providing input & technical content for technical documentation for user help material &training
  • Participating / suggesting new design solutions
  • Rapidly prototype in-car customer experiences
  • Design, code, and debug software on Linux-based embedded platforms and Linux servers
  • Diagnose and fix performance issues related to memory/disk footprint, CPU/GPU usage, and network bandwidth
  • Learn new technologies and techniques specific to the navigation space
Qualifications for navigation engineer
  • MS and MBA
  • General wireless, telephony networking theory knowledge
  • Experience with SQL and spatial databases is a plus
  • Working with mapdata GIS, RDF, GDF is considered a plus
  • Experience working with map data like OSM, TomTom, HERE, is a plus
  • Collaborate in preparing design and interface specification
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Navigation Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of navigation engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for navigation engineer
  • Support developing SW subcomponents
  • May be responsible for directing associate level engineers
  • Support creating testing specifications
  • Test subcomponents within the overall software
  • Commission and release subcomponents
  • Maintain and further develop SW subcomponents
  • Customer support of delivered products, issues and adjustments
  • Optimize SW subcomponents, take impact on functionality and efficiency of the overall system into account
  • Prepare all relevant documents according to process requirements
  • Perform review and analysis of supplier design data, definition of functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, system integration, and support test execution
Qualifications for navigation engineer
  • Prior experience in wireless devices, telematics, Bluetooth, TCP/IP and Wi-Fi connectivity
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and integrate software, prepare and present in design/code reviews and follow established processes
  • Able to independently follow through on assigned tasks
  • Work with global teams and effectively communicate progress
  • We are looking for a polygot who can help us build and scale navigation related functionality utilizing a combination of existing software new techniques/technologies
  • Good technical background and history, object oriented program languages at the least
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Navigation Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a navigation engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for navigation engineer
  • Activities will include systems engineering for integration of vehicle systems, test data reviews, coordination of design changes and change tracking, and systems operations support including CONOPS, Fault, and operating procedure development
  • Candidate will support development of major review packages including briefings to senior leadership
  • Work in cross functional teams of engineers and technicians to troubleshoot and evaluate product quality and resolve new development challenges
  • New development and implementation considering lessons learned
  • Program software
  • Serial and customer support of delivered products
  • Optimize SW subcomponents
  • First principles derived analysis of launch vehicle and spacecraft systems
  • Software verification via testing with flight-software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop
  • Interfacing with the client, to define the content and format of test specifications
Qualifications for navigation engineer
  • Strong understanding of how large and complex software systems are built and maintained
  • Solid communication skills, quick to email and work with global teams
  • Comfortable to switch between coding, bug fix, testing, and documentation
  • Fast learner, able to prototype solutions in hours
  • Able to scale software from single user to thousands
  • Big data and powerful analytics
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Navigation Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a navigation engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for navigation engineer
  • Successful candidate will assist in conducting research and development on the next generation of high-level autonomy algorithms to address mission complexity, environmental challenges and lack of human interfaces, and developing approaches to support cooperative effects through formation, teaming and swarming behaviors
  • Lead conceptualization, design and development of new devices or elements of new devices with the intent of commercialization per Quality System Requirements
  • Interface specification definition
  • Defining of Test Specifications
  • Impact Analysis / Variation
  • Compliance / Customer requirement resolution
  • Interaction with key stakeholders
  • Provide technical specifications
  • To assist Systems Engineering Group Manager to strengthen the engineering capabilities of the team
  • Provide analysis, processing and validation of terrain, obstacle, and runway source data
Qualifications for navigation engineer
  • Up to date on web frameworks, design principals, user interface techniques
  • Experience developing and debugging software in a real-time, multi-processor, multi-interface environment
  • Knowledgeable about cloud oriented software and technologies
  • Willingness to work in an office near Vernon Hills, IL
  • In-depth knowledge of inertial sensors (of various classes) and aiding sensors (GPS, Star Trackers, Seeker, Altimeter, Terrain, Vision based)
  • BS in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) educational field plus at least two years of experience

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