Autonomy Robotics Software Engineer — Real-Time AI

Mach-Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plans

Equity participation

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy software across product lines. You will work in a broad role across domains, taking concepts from prototype to fielded systems with a focus on performance in contested environments.

The role emphasizes deep technical work in one domain (e.g., perception, state estimation, or planning) while collaborating across the autonomy stack, ML, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or 3+ years of equivalent software experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern C++ on Linux and Python for tooling/ML.
• Proven ability to move systems from research/prototype to reliable deployment on hardware.
• Deep strength in at least one core domain: perception, localization/state estimation, navigation, planning, ML, or embedded autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship production autonomy software in modern C++ on Linux, with Python for tooling and ML workflows.
• Integrate capabilities across perception, localization, sensor fusion, navigation, planning, and embedded inference.
• Move systems from prototype through simulation, SIL/HIL, flight test, to deployment.
• Analyze logs, simulations, and test data to debug, improve robustness, and enable rapid iteration.
• Develop evaluation pipelines, metrics, and tooling for accuracy, latency, drift, handoff, and performance.
• Collaborate with hardware, sensing, flight test, and ML teams to deploy algorithms on real platforms.
• Optimize software and models for real-time deployment under SWaP and latency constraints.
• Design systems for degraded operation, fault detection, and uncertainty-aware decisions in contested environments.

Skills

C++ on Linux

Python for tooling/ML

Robotics autonomy

Perception/localization

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

ROS

Linux

Git

Embedded integration

Job description

Mach Industries is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy software across product lines. You will work in a broad role across domains, taking concepts from prototype to fielded systems with a focus on performance in contested environments.

The role emphasizes deep technical work in one domain (e.g., perception, state estimation, or planning) while collaborating across the autonomy stack, ML, and