Inertial, GNSS and acoustic navigation hardware for GPS-denied environments
Advanced Navigation builds navigation systems combining inertial sensors, GNSS and embedded software, with a stack of C++, FreeRTOS, FPGA, Kalman filtering, QEMU and cocotb pointing to deep firmware and hardware verification work. Hiring is accelerating and engineering-led, with senior-heavy roles plus a Head of Engineering and COO search, while pain points around expanding beyond defense and scaling internationally suggest a push into new commercial markets.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Engineering, Chief Operating Officer
Advanced Navigation is a privately held Australian manufacturer of navigation and autonomous systems, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. Its products span inertial navigation, GNSS receivers and antennas, acoustic and underwater positioning, fibre optic gyroscopes, photonics and quantum sensing. Solutions target land, air, sea and space use cases where satellite positioning is unavailable or degraded. The company employs 201–500 people, runs research and production facilities across Australia, and exports internationally, with hiring active in Australia, the United States and the Netherlands.
Engineering relies on C++, Python, FreeRTOS, FPGA, MATLAB, SolidWorks, cocotb, QEMU, pytest and GitLab CI/CD; business teams use Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Outreach, Tableau, Power BI and BigQuery.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and led by engineering, followed by sales and manufacturing, with mostly senior roles and open leadership searches for a Head of Engineering and a Chief Operating Officer.
Advanced Navigation is hiring in Australia, where it is headquartered in Sydney, as well as in the United States and the Netherlands.
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