# Navigation Engineer II

Job Details New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That’s our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers-literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission-your opportunity-is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you’re driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you’re ready for JPL. Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) seeks a Navigation Engineer to support Earth’s gravity-field recovery, precise orbit determination, and simulation activities for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity (GRACE-C) missions. This position focuses on developing, implementing, and validating methods and software to estimate Earth’s gravity field and its temp

- **Id**: 3841210
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nasa-navigation-engineer-ii>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:54:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T19:34:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9325
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace, Launch Services, Earth Observation, Ground Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 12944
- **Name**: NASA
- **Domain**: nasa.gov
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nasa>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 118248
- **Max**: 144144
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 144144

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Fortran** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:54:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:10, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 144144
- **Is top pay**: yes

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