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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 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 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

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. We're looking for a Production Operations Engineer to join our fast-growing company at a breakthrough stage, as we build our dream team with the most passionate and professional people in the industry. Our team thinks differently and quickly, delivering high-quality, innovative solutions with the latest technologies - and we never forget to enjoy the ride along the way! This is a role for someone who owns production stability end to end and knows that the best fixes often happen through other people. You won't be the one writing every manifest or resolving every incident yourself - you'll be the one who sees what production needs, sets the direction, and makes sure R&D teams follow through. What You'll Be Doing: Owning production stability: Act as the go-to person for the health of our production environments, proactively identifying risks before they become incidents. Owning the incident process: Make sure incidents are properly tracked, follow-ups are driven to completion, and R&D teams write and own their postmortems - turning lessons into lasting improvements rather than letting them slip. Driving change across R&D: Partner with engineering teams to define the reliability and operational improvements production needs, and make sure th

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

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. We are looking for a Product Analyst Team Lead to lead and develop our Product Analytics team. In this role, you’ll set the team’s direction and priorities, develop and grow the team, and work closely with Product and senior leadership to ensure analytics drives meaningful product and business decisions. What You Will Do: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Product Analysts, building a strong and high-performing analytics function. Define the team’s direction, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and proactively identify future product and business needs. Lead the team in defining KPIs and turning complex product and business questions into actionable insights and recommendations. Partner closely with Product, R&D, Data, Field, Sales, and senior leadership to influence product and business decisions. Remain close to the data and lead key analyses when needed, while focusing primarily on leading the team and its impact. The Ideal Candidate: 4+ years of people management experience leading Product Analysts or analytical teams. Experience working across at least two different organizations (B2B SaaS or cybersecurity background is a plus). Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and influence senior stake

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. A Product Analyst at Torq plays a key role in helping Product teams understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what to do next. By proactively identifying trends, asking the right questions, and connecting insights across product and user data, you’ll help shape product decisions and identify opportunities for improvement. What You Will Do: Proactively identify trends, opportunities, and product questions, turning data into actionable insights and recommendations. Deep dive into user behavior, product performance, adoption, funnels, and usage to understand not only what is happening, but why. Partner with Product to define meaningful KPIs, monitor performance, and use A/B testing and other analytical methods to identify opportunities for improvement. Work closely with Product, R&D, and other stakeholders to translate insights into product priorities and decisions. Build dashboards, reports, and analytical frameworks that help teams understand product performance and make better decisions. Ensure accuracy and attention to detail, building trust in the data and insights used across the organization. The Ideal Candidate: 3+ years of experience in Product Analytics or a similar analytical role, ideally in SaaS or cybersecurity. Strong analy

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

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, Vision to develop and standardize machine vision systems across manufacturing. You will develop proof-of-concept vision systems using industrial cameras, optics, lighting, profilometers, vision controllers, and edge compute, then translate successful concepts into standardized hardware and software architectures that can be deployed across production equipment. This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You will build vision systems in the lab and on manufacturing equipment, characterize imaging performance, develop acquisition and processing methods, define compute requirements, and establish the technical standards used by internal teams and external systems integrators. Key Responsibilities Develop Mach's standardized machine vision platform for automated manufacturing equipment. Design and build proof-of-concept vision systems using industrial cameras, lenses, lighting, filters, profilometers, depth cameras, and other optical sensors. Select and characterize cameras, optics, lighting, sensors, controllers, and acquisition hardware for manufacturing applications. Define edge compute requirements based on acquisition rates, processing workloads, latency, and machine cycle-time requireme

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 Manufacturing Engineer, Energetics to support the development, industrialization, and launch of manufacturing systems for solid rocket motors (SRMs), pyrotechnics, and energetic products. Safety is the first priority in the design and operation of energetic manufacturing systems. You will work closely with EHS, quality, operations, equipment suppliers, and systems integrators to turn new energetic products into repeatable production processes. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will help design manufacturing processes, develop tooling and equipment, support factory and production-line layouts, execute equipment acceptance and commissioning, and solve problems directly on the production floor. The ideal candidate has strong engineering fundamentals, enjoys building physical systems, and wants to develop expertise at the intersection of manufacturing, automation, propulsion, and energetic materials. Key Responsibilities Manufacturing Process Development Support the development and industrialization of manufacturing processes for solid rocket motors, pyrotechnics, and related energetic products. Translate engineering designs into practical manufacturing sequences, work instructions, tooling concepts, and equipment

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 Quality Reliability Specialist to execute and sustain the day-to-day operational systems that support engineering reliability, issue control, traceability, and quality management system effectiveness. You will manage nonconformance records, issue workflows, inspection coordination, quality records, document revisions, and inventory traceability. This role works across Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Test, and customer-quality activities. The work is hands-on and connected to production, inspection, material control, audits, and hardware records in Huntington Beach. Key Responsibilities Execute and sustain nonconformance, material review board, corrective-action, and issue-tracking workflows for production and engineering hardware. Create, maintain, and close nonconformance records with accurate containment, disposition, evidence, ownership, and status information. Coordinate source, receiving, in-process, and final inspections while maintaining clear inspection records and material status. Support material review board activities and corrective actions by coordinating required information, approvals, follow-up, and closure. Maintain quality records, document revisions, audit checklists, and docu