Navigation Engineer Intern: Summer 2026 chez VectorNav Technologies

Description

VectorNav's GPS and inertial navigation technology enables customers around the world to push the envelope in their respective fields, ranging from UAVs to walking robots to self-driving cars. Achieving success requires dedicated, intelligent and insightful engineers who can adapt, communicate, and apply their expert understanding of navigation systems to the application at hand. Interns and/or co-ops will work directly with the customer engineering, system test, and product development teams to support their respective efforts, including:

• Validating performance of new sensors and algorithms in hardware
• Implementing and testing new techniques in a simulation environment
• Emulating end-user applications to characterize performance and define best-practices
• Developing software tools to support customer and in-house testing

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in-progress in aerospace engineering or similar field
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Coursework or experience working with inertial navigation systems, GPS/GNSS technology, estimation algorithms (particularly Kalman filters), and/or modern controls
• Experience working with or troubleshooting hardware and electronics (especially robotics, UAV’s, gimbal systems and/or other end applications common to VectorNav customers)
• Strong programming skills (Matlab, C++, or Python)

Benefits

• Salary & School Credit Paid internship, with some schools offering course credit for the completion of internships or co-ops.
• Training & Development Learn from the most innovative and talented team of engineers in the industry. Transferring the 100+ years of combined experience from our senior engineers to our new team members is a top priority.
• Perks Company-wide catered lunch every Friday. Fully stocked break room complete with billiards, ping pong, foosball & more.