Autonomy and Robotics Software Engineer
Mach IndustriesBase Salary
$125k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship production autonomy software in modern C++ on Linux, using Python for tooling, analysis, and machine-learning workflows.
- Build and integrate perception, localization, sensor fusion, navigation, planning, and embedded-inference capabilities.
- 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 iteration.
- Develop evaluation pipelines, metrics, and tooling for accuracy, latency, drift, handoff stability, and mission-level performance.
- Collaborate with hardware, sensing, flight-test, and machine-learning teams to integrate algorithms onto real platforms.
- Optimize software and models for real-time embedded deployment under tight size, weight, power, and latency constraints.
- Design for degraded operation, fault detection, graceful degradation, and uncertainty-aware decision-making in contested environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or 3+ years of equivalent practical software engineering experience.
- Strong software engineering skills in modern C++ on Linux and Python for tooling, analysis, or machine-learning workflows.
- Proven ability to take research or prototype systems into reliable deployment on hardware.
- Deep technical strength in at least one domain including perception, localization and state estimation, navigation, planning, machine learning, or embedded autonomy.
- Experience building and debugging real-world robotics, autonomy, or embedded software systems.
- Preferred experience with state estimation, SLAM, VIO, GNSS/INS fusion, relocalization, or multi-sensor fusion.
- Preferred experience with detection, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, or classification systems in challenging real-world conditions.
- Preferred experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying machine-learning models for autonomy applications.
- Preferred experience bringing up embedded systems across sensors, compute, vehicle interfaces, and autonomy software on embedded Linux or RTOS platforms.
- Preferred experience with motion planning, mission autonomy, decision-making under uncertainty, simulation, HITL, synthetic data, sensor modeling, or contested and degraded environments.
- Preferred strong data and infrastructure practices, including dataset versioning, reproducible pipelines, CI-based validation, and evaluation tooling.
- Employment may require authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export-control laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development opportunities
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in most offers
- Employment authorization is subject to U.S. export-control requirements and may require eligibility without sponsorship for an export license
About Mach Industries
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that develops and produces unmanned aerospace and defense systems, along with the infrastructure required to manufacture them at scale. Its product portfolio includes strike aircraft, long-range munitions, high-altitude platforms, counter-drone systems, and propulsion technologies designed for military applications. The company follows a vertically integrated approach, designing and manufacturing key components and systems in-house to support production, testing, and deployment. Mach Industries also operates a decentralized manufacturing network that supports the production of defense hardware and related components. In addition to developing operational systems, the company provides capabilities in propulsion, energetics, testing, and advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace applications.