Making Space a Transportation Layer for Earth. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Inversion's vehicles do not fly through an empty sky. As the Staff GNC Engineer (State Estimation), you will give our vehicles an accurate, continuously updated picture of the world around them — estimating and predicting the state and behavior of friendly and non-cooperative systems external to the vehicle.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, a related field, or equivalent experience
- Typically, 9+ years of applicable experience developing and testing estimation, tracking, or GNC algorithms and systems
- Experience with behavior or trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles, robotics, or similar multi-agent domains, including probabilistic prediction of agent intent
- Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX) and the infrastructure to train models at scale
- Experience estimating and tracking the state of dynamic objects from noisy, intermittent, or limited sensor data
- Experience training and implementing neural networks for prediction, tracking, or related applications
More about this role
Inversion is an aerospace and defense company pioneering advanced reentry technology to enable next-generation capabilities from space. By combining high-performance materials, precision aerodynamics, and mission-driven autonomy, Inversion is transforming reentry into an operational capability for an entirely new class of missions.
The company’s highly maneuverable reentry spacecraft, Arc, is designed for rapid global cargo delivery, hypersonic testing, and other national security missions that require precise, controlled flight through the atmosphere. Arc creates an entirely new transportation domain, unlocking unprecedented speed and global reach.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Inversion designs, manufactures, and integrates its spacecraft under one roof, enabling the company to move rapidly from concept to flight. The company is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, with customers across the U.S. government and commercial space industry.
Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space.
Our mission is to make Earth radically more accessible by turning Low-Earth Orbit into an...
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