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About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role We are seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the use of modeling and simulation throughout the aircraft design process. This person will develop integrated aircraft-level simulations, evaluate design alternatives, and translate analysis into clear engineering decisions. The role requires close collaboration with the aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, electrical, controls, and vehicle systems teams. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth in aircraft simulation with the leadership and communication skills needed to drive multidisciplinary design decisions. Key Responsibilities Own the architecture, development, and validation of integrated aircraft simulations. Use simulation to guide aircraft configuration, subsystem sizing, requirements, and design trade studies. Integrate aerodynamic, structural, propulsion, electrical, mass-properties, controls, and mission-performance models. Lead multidisciplinary design optimization and sensitivity analyses. Quantify design margins, uncertainty, risk, and system-level impacts of proposed changes. Define simulation fidelity requirements appropriate to each phase of development. Establish model verification, validation, configuration-management, and documen

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a Principal GNC Engineer to define, develop, and flight-prove the GNC architecture for autonomous aircraft and related defense platforms. You will own system-level technical decisions across guidance, navigation, flight controls, modeling and simulation, embedded implementation, and flight test. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will solve the program’s hardest problems, establish engineering rigor, and guide multidisciplinary teams from early vehicle design through flight qualification and deployment. The ideal candidate combines deep flight-vehicle expertise with strong software judgment, decisive technical leadership, and a record of fielding reliable systems. Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end GNC architecture and technical roadmap across all mission phases, from launch or takeoff through terminal operations, recovery, or landing. Translate mission objectives and vehicle concepts into GNC requirements, interfaces, performance budgets, and verification criteria. Design, analyze, and mature guidance algorithms, control laws, state-estimation solutions, gain schedules, and control-allocation strategies. Ensure robust performance across the full operating envelope while accounting for aerodynamic u

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is building an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and other sensing are unavailable or unreliable. As a Perception Engineer, you will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art vision and multi-sensor perception systems that enable navigation, targeting, and automatic target recognition on our product lines. You’ll work across deep learning, computer vision, and embedded systems to bring research-grade algorithms to real-world deployments. Key Responsibilities Build and refine detection/segmentation/tracking architectures (CNN/Transformer) for EO/IR and multi-spectral imagery; drive foundation-scale datasets, training recipes, and robust generalization to long-tail and degraded conditions. Stand up training/eval pipelines (PR/ROC, mAP, latency, robustness suites); implement continuous regression testing and model-update loops from field data. Optimize models for real-time embedded inference (quantization/pruning, TensorRT/ONNX Runtime), profile CPU/GPU, and meet tight throughput/latency targets on Jetson-class hardware. Combine vision outputs with auxiliary sensing (e.g., radar/LiDAR/RF cues) for confirm/deny, association, and track management using decision-level fusion. Create visualization, triage,

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Build the next generation of navigation systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. Mach is looking to build a tightly coupled navigation system to fuse GNSS, optical, and magnetic navigational aids to estimate vehicle pose. Key Responsibilities Develop sensor fusion algorithms to estimate pose of UAVs. Develop and integrate GNSS and LEO constellation navigational aids. Leverage optical techniques such as VIO to aid pose estimation. Characterize and integrate inertial sensors. Build algorithm validation tools and infrastructure. Required Qualifications Education: Bachelor's in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics. Experience: 1+ years of building and shipping Navigation solutions. Deep understanding of navigation sensors (i.e, IMU, GNSS receiver). Experience with modern software development tools (i.e, git, Jira). Experience with the implementation of embedded algorithms using C++. Experience with navigation error covariance propagation. Preferred Qualifications Experience with high altitude, monocular, SLAM. Experience with LEO constellation PNT. Experience with leveraging magnetometers for pose estimation. Experience with Aerospace systems. ITAR Requirements To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or natio

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is building an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and other sensing are unavailable or unreliable. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will own and scale the training, data, and edge-inference backbone that every vision and multi-sensor model on our product lines depends on for detection, tracking, search, navigation, targeting, and automatic target recognition. This is a broad, high-ownership role: you'll stand up the data and training infrastructure that lets the autonomy team iterate fast, generate synthetic data to cover the long tail, and get research-grade models running in real time on embedded hardware in flight. We are generalists, so you'll move fluidly between infrastructure, modeling, and deployment. Key Responsibilities Own and evolve the training and data infrastructure the autonomy team builds on: ingestion from flight/sim/HITL, curation and mining, labeling/QA workflows, dataset versioning (DVC/Parquet), and reproducible dataset builds. Stand up and scale training/eval infrastructure: distributed multi-GPU training, experiment tracking, a model registry, and CI-based evaluation with regression gates plus automated field-data to retrain to validate to redeploy loops. Deploy and opt

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a talented Integration Engineer to lead the integration of Software and Firmware components into Mach’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The Integration Engineer is responsible for driving projects forward at a rapid pace — tracking milestones, managing deliverables, and integrating the work of multiple teams into a cohesive final product. This role also requires a hands-on approach, including debugging source code, identifying and resolving complex technical issues, proposing solutions, FW reconfiguration and testing prototype firmware implementations within UA vehicles. The Integration Engineer will serve as both a responsible engineer and a key liaison between software, hardware, and systems teams. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and program management — combining technical depth with the communication and planning skills needed to drive cross-functional integration efforts across flight software, autonomy, ground control, and mission systems. This is a highly visible, multidisciplinary role ideal for an engineer who thrives in both technical and leadership contexts — someone who can dive deep into code when needed while also steering teams toward coordinated technical milestones. Key Responsibilit

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a GNC Engineer, Modeling & Simulation to design, build, and maintain high-fidelity aircraft simulation environments in support of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) development. You will be responsible for realizing equations of motion in software, developing and validating aerodynamic and plant models, and creating the simulation infrastructure required for both software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of physics-based modeling, software development, and systems integration. You’ll collaborate closely with aerodynamicists, controls engineers, and hardware teams to ensure Mach’s autonomous platforms are accurately modeled and rigorously tested before flight. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain high-fidelity flight dynamics and vehicle simulation models. Implement equations of motion in C++ and Python for real-time and offline simulation environments. Collaborate with the aerodynamics team to incorporate aerodynamic models derived from CFD and wind tunnel testing. Perform system identification and parameter estimation to generate accurate plant models. Build and sustain simulation infrastructure supp

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is building an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and other sensing are unavailable or unreliable. As an Embedded Autonomy Engineer, you own the Linux mission computer that manages cameras, sensors, and the autonomy stack in flight. You bring up Jetson-class compute, integrate high-bandwidth cameras and sensors into Linux, and make perception, planning, decision making, and on-edge inference run in real time under real SWaP, thermal, and vibration constraints. This is a role for an exceptional embedded Linux engineer who wants to work up into the autonomy stack, not just maintain boards: kernel and camera/SerDes bring-up, the sensor-to-GPU pipeline, on-target CUDA/TensorRT runtime, and the autonomy software that sits on top. Key Responsibilities Own bring-up and lifecycle of the Linux mission computer: board support packages, device trees, kernel configuration, and bootloaders on NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra and similar SoCs. Integrate high-bandwidth sensors into Linux end to end: MIPI CSI cameras with GMSL/FPD-Link SerDes, V4L2, and ISP tuning, plus radar over PCIe or Ethernet; own time-sync and calibration across the sensor suite. Build and optimize the real-time sensor-to-GPU data path that feeds perce

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role The Firmware Engineer will play a pivotal role in the development of our cutting-edge embedded systems, focusing on firmware development, prototyping, and design for aerospace vehicles. This position requires advanced technical skills in embedded software development, programming for microcontrollers, and knowledge of system-level integration. As a core member of the engineering team, you will contribute significantly to the Mach software team. Key Responsibilities Software System Design: Utilize your expertise in embedded systems software design to develop firmware for the control and operation of our embedded systems in weapons applications. Prototyping and Testing: Take an active role in sourcing components, firmware specifications, system integration, and troubleshooting of completed embedded system designs, ensuring they meet performance and quality standards. Embedded Systems Controls: Implement control algorithms for the precise movement and operation of embedded systems within the weapons platform. Collaboration : Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to seamlessly integrate your embedded system designs into the broader project scope. Hardware Interaction: Work in tandem with hardware engineers to

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a New Grad Software Engineer to join our team in developing the software that powers our autonomous defense systems. You will design, build, and optimize mission-critical software , working across real-time systems, embedded platforms, and autonomy applications. This role demands strong technical fundamentals, adaptability, and ownership , as you will work closely with engineers across software, GNC, embedded systems, and hardware to build and deploy high-performance systems in a fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities Develop, test, and maintain software for autonomous defense platforms, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. Design and implement clean, efficient, and well-tested code in C++, Rust, Python, or C. Develop software across the stack, from low-level embedded software and firmware to higher-level autonomy and mission applications. Work closely with GNC, embedded, systems, and hardware engineers to integrate software with complex electromechanical systems. Optimize software for real-time execution, low-latency performance, and resource-constrained embedded platforms. Build simulation, testing, and development infrastructure to accelerate software development a

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Support control design and evaluation for Mach’s fixed-wing aircraft. You’ll own your piece of the aircraft design, implementation, and validation of flight-critical control laws—spanning takeoff to landing—delivering robust performance across the full envelope. Key Responsibilities Design control systems within defined architecture and requirements for fixed-wing vehicles Design and implement control laws accounting for actuator limits, time delays, and sensor noise as part of the controls team Participate in system identification and aerodynamic model development from wind-tunnel, CFD, and flight-test data Execute verification & validation work: SIL/HIL campaigns, Monte Carlo, and flight-readiness criteria; communicate findings to the team and program leadership. Participate in flight-test planning and execution; analyze logs, tune controllers, and iterate safely and quickly. Learn from the controls team, carry your work through design/code reviews to meet roadmap goals and milestones. Required Qualifications Education: Bachelors in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics Experience: 0-5 years designing, analyzing and fielding flight control systems for fixed-wing aircraft or high-performance UAVs, including flight test. Deep knowledge of flight

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is building an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GNSS and other sensing may be unavailable, degraded, or denied. As an Autonomy Software Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the software systems that power perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy across our product lines. This is a broad role for engineers who are deeply technical in one domain and highly effective across adjacent ones. You may come from estimation, perception, machine learning, embedded systems, or planning, but you are excited to work across the autonomy stack and deliver real capability from prototype to fielded system. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and ship production autonomy software in modern C++ on Linux, with Python for tooling, analysis, and ML workflows. Build and integrate capabilities across perception, localization, sensor fusion, navigation, planning, and embedded inference. Take systems from prototype through simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, flight test, and deployment. Analyze logs, simulation results, and test data to debug failures, improve robustness, and drive rapid iteration. Develop evaluation pipelines, metrics, and tooling for accuracy, lat

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking an Automation Engineer, Controls to develop, integrate, and commission automated manufacturing equipment across our factories. You will design and program controls systems using Mach's standardized Beckhoff TwinCAT platform, working directly with manufacturing engineers, automation engineers, equipment OEMs, and systems integrators to take equipment from concept through production. This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You will develop PLC software, integrate sensors, motion systems, robotics, vision, and safety devices, commission equipment on the factory floor, and troubleshoot automation systems during production ramp. Key Responsibilities Design, program, integrate, and commission controls systems for automated manufacturing equipment. Develop PLC software using Beckhoff TwinCAT and Mach's standardized controls architecture and software libraries. Configure Beckhoff IPCs, EtherCAT I/O, servo drives, instrumentation, sensors, and industrial communication networks. Develop machine sequences, state machines, interlocks, alarms, fault handling, diagnostics, and recovery logic. Integrate PLC-controlled equipment with industrial robots, machine vision, motion systems, test equipment, and process instrumentation. Im

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Jet Engine to lead the development and industrialization of jet engine assembly and test systems. You will own manufacturing line design and develop the assembly, balancing, inspection, and end-of-line test processes required to build engines safely, repeatedly, and at production rate. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work directly with engine hardware to develop manufacturing processes, tooling, fixtures, inspection methods, balancing processes, and test systems, then translate those processes into scalable production equipment. Key Responsibilities Lead manufacturing line design for jet engine subassembly, final assembly, inspection, balancing, and end-of-line testing. Translate product requirements and production targets into process flows, assembly sequences, equipment requirements, cycle times, line layouts, and capacity models. Develop robust assembly processes for turbomachinery and precision mechanical assemblies, including controlled fastening, joining, bearing installation, fits, clearances, alignment, concentricity, runout, and tolerance stack-up. Develop tooling, fixtures, gauges, error-proofing, and process controls to reduce assembly variation and operator dep

About Mach Industries Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition. Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. The Role Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer, Factory Software to develop the software and data systems connecting manufacturing equipment to factory operations. You will develop integrations between equipment, MES, SCADA, historians, data infrastructure, and engineering applications while helping establish Mach's standards for factory software, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and manufacturing data. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will build applications, APIs, data pipelines, dashboards, and equipment integrations; deploy software to factory edge hardware; and develop tools that make manufacturing data accessible to engineers and operators. You will work closely with Controls, Robotics, Vision, Manufacturing Engineering, IT, Operations, and external software partners to build a scalable factory software ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Develop and deploy factory software connecting manufacturing equipment, edge devices, MES, SCADA, historians, and manufacturing data infrastructure. Evaluate commercial factory software platforms and lead technical proof-of-concept implementations. Develop integrations between engineering and manufacturing systems including PLM, MES, QMS, factory equipment, and data platforms. Build and