Navigation Engineer

We are seeking a Navigation Engineer to tackle all navigation and sensor‑fusion challenges across our missile system development portfolio. In this role, you will architect, develop, and validate advanced navigation solutions that enable autonomous flight, precision guidance, and reliable manoeuvrability, while working closely with control, airframe, propulsion, and systems engineers. At Frankenburg, you will join an exceptional team of leading experts in technology and national defence, building next‑generation defence missile systems for the free world. You will work in a fast‑paced environment where your contribution shapes how we verify and demonstrate advanced defence systems. If you thrive on innovation and impact — we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and refine strap‑down navigation algorithms tailored for contested environments.
• Implement probabilistic and deterministic estimation techniques for real‑time sensor fusion and error mitigation.
• Build high‑fidelity models of integrated navigation subsystems using model‑based design tools.
• Conduct rigorous verification and validation activities, generating performance evidence and quantifying impacts on overall system behaviour.
• Translate algorithmic concepts into production‑grade flight firmware, ensuring compliance with safety, reliability, and timing constraints.
• Work with software and hardware teams to integrate navigation stacks into missile airframes and UAV platforms.
• Recommend enhancements to processes, tools, and methodologies to improve development efficiency and increase performance margins.

We Would Love You to Have

• Educational Background: Technical Degree in aerospace engineering, cybernetics, electrical engineering, or related field.
• Experience: Prior experience in navigation and localisation‑related fields of aerospace engineering. Experience in missile, UAV or high‑performance aerospace programs is preferred.
• Technical Skills: Deep understanding of Kalman filtering (KF, EKF, UKF), strap‑down inertial navigation system and sensor fusion algorithms. Strong understanding of classical mechanics, dynamics, linear algebra, and stochastic processes. Proficient in model‑based design and operational code generation.
• Soft Skills: Proactive, solution‑oriented mindset with exceptional communication skills. Strong focus on delivery with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines.
• Mission Alignment: Strong alignment with our mission to build affordable and mass‑manufacturable defence technologies — ensuring every euro spent moves us closer to our goal.
• Security Clearance: Willingness to undergo a background check as a condition of employment.

Our mission is ambitious, and it takes a team that works with the same intensity. Own the Mission: Mission first. Always. We choose impact — we focus on what moves the mission forward fastest instead of “nice‑to‑haves.”