Estes Aerospace

Autonomy / Robotics Engineer

Vienna, Virginia · Posted 1 month ago

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Salary
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Job type
Full-time
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Not specified
Source
Jazzhr (employer's hiring system)

Skills mentioned

Computer Vision

About the role

You will design and build the guidance system for rockets. You'll take your designs from concept all the way through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and live flight test.

What You'll Do
  • Design systems to detect and track targets using computer vision, RF, radar, and more
  • Turn those tracks into guidance commands to steer a rocket
  • Build high-fidelity simulations of your control systems and the vehicles they fly on
  • Run hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing to validate your designs
  • See your work perform in the real world and feed those results back into your next design
What We're Looking For
  • Strong background in robotics, computer vision, and/or kalman filtering
  • Experience implementing and validating real-time autonomy systems
  • Comfort working across the hardware/software boundary — you understand both the math and the implementation
  • You like to iterate fast and test often, not wait for perfection
  • Bonus: experience with drone guidance or state estimation

This role is for engineers who want to close the loop — not just model a system, but actually fly it. There's nothing quite like that first flight test.

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