Autonomy Robotics Software Engineer: AI & Perception

Mach Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Equity grants

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments. You will develop perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy across product lines, leveraging C++ on Linux with Python tooling and ML workflows.

This broad, technically deep role welcomes engineers who excel in one domain yet collaborate across adjacent areas, from estimation to ML, embedded systems, and flight-test integration,

Qualifications

• Proven strong software engineering in modern C++ on Linux and Python for tooling/ML.
• Experience turning research or prototypes into reliable deployment on hardware.
• Deep technical strength in at least one core domain such as perception, localization, navigation, planning, ML, or embedded autonomy.
• Experience building and debugging real-world robotics, autonomy, or embedded software systems.

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, latency, drift, handoff stability, and mission-level performance.
• Work closely with hardware, sensing, flight test, and ML teams to integrate algorithms onto real platforms.
• Optimize software and models for real-time deployment on embedded compute under tight SWaP and latency constraints.
• Design systems for degraded operation, fault detection, graceful degradation, and uncertainty-aware decision-making in contested environments.

Skills

C++ on Linux

Python tooling/ML

Robotics/autonomy software

Systems deployment

Perception/Localization

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Robotics/EE/ML, or 3+ yrs practical software exp.

Job description

Mach Industries is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments. You will develop perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy across product lines, leveraging C++ on Linux with Python tooling and ML workflows.

This broad, technically deep role welcomes engineers who excel in one domain yet collaborate across adjacent areas, from estimation to ML, embedded systems, and flight-test integration,