Estes Aerospace
Autonomy / Robotics Engineer
Vienna, Virginia · Posted 1 month ago
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- Salary
- Not listed
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- 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
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
- 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.
Job ID jz-estesaerospace-20260824133059_e5sjwzhtp2qhjhcz · Original posting ↗