# Senior Optical Navigation Engineer (Lunar)

As a Senior Optical Navigation Engineer at Impulse Space, you will own the onboard optical navigation algorithms and software for our lunar lander across all phases of development and operation, while working in a fast-paced, agile team. You will design, implement, and validate the navigation filters and sensor-fusion techniques that land our spacecraft on the moon, as well as provide inputs on the hardware and embedded-system design. Responsibilities Design, develop, and tune navigation algorithms for low-lunar-orbit (LLO) navigation, descent, and landing Provide inputs for the camera system that provides imagery to the terrain-relative navigation system Implement the terrain-relative navigation algorithms and software, performing crater detection/matching and image comparison for odometry Perform spacecraft navigation analyses: orbit determination, attitude determination, covariance analysis, and navigation error budgets Develop and validate simulated sensor and measurement models in Impulse’s 6DOF simulation environment Implement navigation algorithms in flight code (C++) and support SIL/HIL integration and test Perform Monte Carlo analysis to characterize navigation performance

- **Id**: 3932760
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/impulse-space-senior-optical-navigation-engineer-lunar>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redondo Beach, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T03:16:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:21:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4497
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 58617
- **Name**: Impulse Space
- **Domain**: impulsespace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/impulse-space>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 210000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **GMAT** — Optional: yes
- **STK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T03:16:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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