# Senior Navigation Engineer at Helsing

- Company: Helsing
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://helsing.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://helsing.ai/jobs/4895594101?gh_jid=4895594101
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/helsing-senior-navigation-engineer/

## About the role

Autonomous UAS depend on precise, resilient Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) to execute their missions. In the modern battlefield, GNSS is one of the most heavily contested signals in the electromagnetic spectrum, subject to sophisticated jamming and spoofing threats.

## What they're looking for

- Design and develop resilient GNSS and navigation architectures for UAS, including multi-constellation, multi-frequency receivers and anti-jam/anti-spoof solutions
- Integrate Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas (CRPAs) with adaptive null-steering and beamforming techniques to mitigate jamming threats
- Integrate and operate SAASM GPS modules and M-Code receivers, managing the associated key handling, certification, and security accreditation processes
- Design tightly- and loosely-coupled GNSS/INS sensor fusion algorithms to maintain navigation performance during GNSS outages
- Develop and validate alternative navigation techniques (vision-aided, terrain-relative, celestial, signals-of-opportunity) to ensure mission continuity in GNSS-denied environments
- Conduct PNT performance analysis, including error budgets, jamming/spoofing vulnerability assessments, and operational range modeling

Tags: Hardware Engineering