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Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).\nEchodyne is seeking a Principal State EstimationEngineer to join our fast-growing team. \nROLE OVERVIEW\nIn this role, you’ll lead development of pose-estimation capabilities for Echodyne radars operating in GPS-denied environments. You’ll architect and develop new on-radar systems that use radar and inertial sensor data to estimate the global position and motion of radars without reliance on external navigation systems. \nYou’ll make key algorithm and system-level tradeoffs and own efforts from early prototyping through production deployment. You’ll also provide technical leadership on related state-estimation and sensor-fusion problems, such as target tracking. \nYour work will have an immediate real-world impact on our established and rapidly growing fleet of fielded radars, helping make them more robust and effective at protecting the infrastructure and people that rely on them in an evolving world. \nRESPONSIBILITIES\nLead development of methods for estimating radar position, velocity, orientation, angular rate, and height above ground in GPS-denied environments using radar and IMU data, terrain maps, and other on-radar sensors and data. \nApply techniques from robotics and autonomy, including SLAM, odometry, inertial navigation, localization, factor graphs, probabilistic state estimation, and machine learning - within the constraints of an embedded real-time system. \nTake these algorithms from research and prototyping through production implementation. \nDrive system-level impacts and coordinate with other teams on deployment. \nWork with radar, signal processing, embedded software, systems, and test teams to integrate capabilities into products. \nAnalyze field data to characterize performance and identify failure modes to produce robust, production-grade solutions. \nREQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE\nDemonstrated ability to independently lead an open-ended technical problem. \nExperience developing state-estimation, localization, navigation, perception, or machine learning solutions for robotics, VR/AR headsets, autonomous vehicles, drones, aerospace, or similar platforms from prototype through production deployment. \nExperience working with real-world spatial sensor data (e.g. camera, lidar, radar, ultrasound, sonar). \nExperience with SLAM, Kalman filtering, Bayesian estimation, and factor graphs. \nDeep understanding of state-estimation theory, 3D geometry, coordinate transformations, rotations, and kinematics. \nStrong foundations in linear algebra, probability, statistics, and optimization. \nStrong software development skills in C++ and either Python or MATLAB. \nStrong verbal and written communication skills. \nDESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) \nExperience with visual, lidar, or radar odometry; map- or terrain-relative localization, Maximum Likelihood Estimation. \nExperience with open-source C++ optimization libraries (GTSAM, Ceres). \nSoftware development processes and best practices. \nReal-time or embedded algorithm development. \nUnderstanding of traditional navigation sensors (IMUs, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, GPS, etc.). \nFamiliarity with alternative navigation sensors (camera, RF ranging, celestial, etc.). \nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nMS with 7+ years or PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience in robotics, VR/AR headsets, aerospace, electrical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field. \nDemonstrated technical leadership on complex, production-grade algorithm development efforts. \nAbility to handle export-controlled (ITAR, EAR) data. \nEchodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. \nWHAT WE OFFER\nThis is an exempt role.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is\n$164,594—$246,788 USD\nIf your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!\nWe offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:\nRSU (Restricted Stock Units)\nGenerous Benefits:\nFully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you \nChoice of PPO or HDHP/HSA\nVirtual Care - 98Point6\nEmployee Assistance Program\nMental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)\nTravel Assistance Insurance\nCompany Paid Life Insurance\nCompany Paid Short & Long Term Disability\nFlexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)\n401(k) match\nPet Insurance\nPrepaid Legal Program\nCommuter Benefits\nPaid Company Holidays\nAll qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5786,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["RF & Wireless Hardware","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T20:29:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.817,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":48,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":246788,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T12:14:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15769,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6413},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6413"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/echodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-principal-state-estimation-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1011611}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"echodyne.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1011611},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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