Mach Industries
Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy
$125K–$220K
Huntington Beach, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- No minimum years specified; preferred: three or more years of professional experience in the listed fields.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations. An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive export-controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Develop and integrate mission-autonomy software that turns mission objectives into reliable autonomous behavior for aerial platforms, from simulation through flight testing and deployment.
What you'll do
- Build mission-planning, decision-making, task-execution, and contingency-management capabilities; integrate them with vehicle and ground-control systems.
- Create simulation, test automation, and mission-evaluation tools; analyze telemetry and flight data to improve software.
- Support integrated ground and flight testing and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver vehicle capabilities.
What they ask for
- Strong software-engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
- Experience developing production software on Linux and software for autonomous systems, robotics, or aerospace platforms.
- Hands-on experience implementing at least one mission-autonomy capability, such as task planning, behavior trees, state machines, or mission execution.
- Experience taking software from prototype through integration, testing, and deployment on real hardware.
Nice to have
- Three or more years of professional experience developing software for autonomous vehicles, UAVs, robotics, aerospace, or defense systems.
- Experience with autonomous aerial vehicles, multi-agent autonomy, degraded communications, simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing, or Rust.
Pay
$125,000 — $160,000 USD (base salary); $165,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, Linux, Rust
AI focus
Develop autonomous mission-planning, decision-making, execution, coordination, and contingency-management capabilities for aerial platforms.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative