Senior GNSS Engineer

£40k – £80k
Published: 1 month ago
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Focal Point Positioning

Next generation positioning solutions for smartphones, wearables and vehicles

Job Location

Job Type

Full Time

Visa Sponsorship

Available

Hires remotely

Everywhere

Relocation

Allowed

The Role

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior GNSS Engineer who is passionate about technology and excited about the goals of our company. You will join our GNSS team and help lead the development of our proprietary S-GNSS technology, while working closely with our software engineers to build our products. The role offers significant scope for professional development spanning the research, product and software engineering disciplines and mentorship of junior staff.

Location: Offices in Cambridge & Bristol (remote / office based)

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership within a development team to integrate our proprietary GNSS technology into products
  • Take a leading role in the design, prototyping, and testing of improvements to our S-GNSS technology using Matlab and C++
  • Maintain and enhance the capabilities of our Matlab-based software-defined GNSS receiver
  • Provide technical mentorship to engineers within the company
  • You may be required on occasion to use a variety of programming tools and languages as appropriate: e.g. C++, Python, Matlab

Job requirements

Essential:

  • Relevant academic or industrial experience (e.g. developing GNSS algorithms in industry)
  • Good knowledge of the GNSS signal-processing chain
  • Strong programming experience in Matlab or C++

Desirable:

  • Expertise in Kalman filters and other probabilistic estimation techniques
  • Knowledge of multi-sensor fusion techniques, including tight and deep coupling for GNSS-INS
  • Experience with low-level embedded software development and testing (DSP).
  • Experience in RTK and/or PPP and/or multi-constellation positioning
  • Experience with multi-path mitigation methods

Your Development and Perks

Your development is equally important as our business grows and we offer opportunities including appraisals, career development plans, training courses, feedback sessions through 1-2-1 meetings, knowledge-sharing and cross-training.

Our generous benefits package includes the following:

  • 5% matched contribution pension scheme
  • Flexible working (office and remote working to suit your needs)
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Extra annual leave between Christmas - New Year’s
  • Vitality Health core package private healthcare (also includes mental health cover, employee assistance programme, discounted gym memberships and more)
  • £2000 Recommend a friend scheme
  • Office-based Friday lunches on us
  • Office-based unlimited amounts of caffeine

Are You Ready to Change the World?

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our successes are achievements driven by our employees.

And that is why our culture is about investing, cultivating and growing our people. We thrive on being trailblazers in the industry and in being honest and the best at everything we do, we will always lead the way in the industry.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is what we continue to build upon. We aim to attract diverse talent from around the world, ensure fairness and equality is at the top of our agenda and sustain an inclusive culture where everyone can grow and succeed.

Sounds great, right? If you would like to join us and be our next Senior GNSS Engineer, we'd love to hear from you!