Systems Engineer (Navigation Systems)

Quick Facts

• Role: Systems Engineer (Navigation Systems)

• Focus: Integration, commissioning, testing, and validation of inertial and multi-sensor navigation systems

Description

You will integrate and commission inertial and multi-sensor navigation systems based on INS, GNSS, and visual, radar, and radio-based navigation methods. The role includes building and supporting demonstrators and prototypes, planning and executing ground and flight trials, and analyzing measurement and test data. You will also troubleshoot and support validation of new sensor and system concepts with interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and commission inertial and multi-sensor navigation systems using INS, GNSS, and visual/radar/radio navigation methods

• Build and maintain demonstrators, test vehicles, and prototype systems

• Plan, execute, and evaluate vehicle and flight tests

• Integrate sensors, compute hardware, and communication interfaces

• Analyze system behavior and evaluate measurement and test data

• Support prototypical implementation of new technologies and navigation concepts

• Perform technical investigations and validate new sensor and system concepts

• Support commissioning and system integration, including troubleshooting

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across algorithms, software, hardware, and test

Requirements

• Completed degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or a comparable qualification

• Relevant experience integrating and testing complex technical systems

• Willingness for national and international travel and to support trials on land, air, and marine platforms

• Strong communication skills and good English proficiency

• Independent, solution-oriented work style and enjoyment of interdisciplinary teamwork

Benefits

• Compensation according to the collective bargaining agreements for the metal and electrical industry in Baden-Württemberg

• Company pension plan (betriebliche Altersvorsorge)

• Training opportunities and language courses

• Mobile work/home office options

• Good public transport connections, parking, and an E-car charging station

• Occupational physician consultation and sports offerings (betriebssport)

• Fitness partnerships and on-site cafeteria

Compensation, training, and mobility benefits support high-technology international work in a motivated team.