Navigation Engineer Intern: Summer 2026

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.