Staff Product Applications - Sensor Fusion/GNSS - MA, Wilmington, United States

Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves supporting customers in evaluating, integrating, and optimizing inertial sensing and navigation technologies. You will apply deep applications expertise and system-level knowledge of inertial navigation, GNSS, state estimation, and sensor fusion.

What you'll do

• Serve as a senior technical expert for inertial sensing and navigation applications, guiding customers through product discovery, evaluation, integration, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Develop and maintain product data sheets, application notes, user guides, implementation guidance, reference designs, evaluation platforms, and software tools.
• Lead laboratory analysis and system-level characterization of IMUs, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and associated navigation solutions.
• Support customer architectures combining inertial sensors with GNSS and other aiding sensors for attitude, position, velocity, heading, and timing estimation.
• Develop or adapt models, algorithms, simulations, and analysis tools demonstrating performance and robustness of inertial sensing, state estimation, and multi-sensor fusion solutions.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify, reproduce, simulate, and resolve functional, parametric, hardware, software, and system-integration issues.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience in product applications, systems engineering, inertial sensing, navigation, robotics, aerospace, autonomous systems, or semiconductor products.
• Strong electronic component and system background, including development, applications support, or product engineering for semiconductor devices, electronic modules, or embedded systems.
• Hands-on experience evaluating and troubleshooting hardware and electronics using oscilloscopes, power supplies, and logic analyzers.
• Strong understanding of inertial sensors, including gyroscopes, accelerometers, IMUs, sensor error sources, calibration, and system-level performance tradeoffs.
• Experience using MATLAB, Python, C/C++, or comparable technical computing and software-development environments for data analysis, modeling, simulation, test automation, or embedded implementation.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with inertial navigation systems, attitude and heading reference systems, dead reckoning, or Positioning, Navigation, and Timing applications.
• Experience implementing, analyzing, or troubleshooting state-estimation and attitude-determination algorithms, particularly Kalman filters, Extended Kalman Filters, Unscented Kalman Filters, or related Bayesian estimation techniques.
• Experience with GNSS/INS fusion, including loosely coupled and tightly coupled architectures and multi-GNSS measurement models.
• Direct experience with GNSS receivers, antennas, signal quality, receiver firmware, and hardware integration.
• Familiarity with advanced GNSS techniques such as carrier-phase processing, integer ambiguity resolution, Precise Point Positioning, and Real-Time Kinematic positioning.
• Understanding of GNSS corrections and augmentation, including ephemeris and clock inputs, ionospheric modeling, and RTCM-based data exchange.
• Experience with timing and synchronization interfaces such as Pulse Per Second and Precision Time Protocol.
• Experience integrating sensors and navigation algorithms into robotics, UAVs, autonomous vehicles, gimbal systems, industrial equipment, or other motion-control platforms.
• Knowledge of modern controls, signal processing, coordinate frames, navigation mechanization, covariance analysis, digital filtering, and sensor error modeling.
• Experience developing, testing, documenting, or deploying robust production-quality embedded or C++ software for sensor fusion or navigation systems.
• Experience converting application requirements into customer-ready demonstrations, reference architectures, technical documentation, and product-roadmap input.

Skills: technical expert, inertial sensing, navigation applications, GNSS, customer support