Autonomy Software Engineer - AI & Perception

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries is recruiting an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy software powering perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy across product lines. You may come from estimation, perception, ML, embedded systems, or planning but will work across the autonomy stack to deliver real capability from prototype to fielded systems.

The role emphasizes strong C++/Linux development, Python tooling, and collaboration with hardware, ML, and flight-test teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or related field, or 3+ years of equivalent practical experience as a software engineer.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern C++ on Linux and Python for tooling, analysis, or ML.
• Proven ability to take systems from research or prototype into reliable deployment on hardware.

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.

Skills

Modern C++ on Linux

Python for tooling/ML

Systems deployment to hardware

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS/Robotics/EE or 3+ years of equivalent software experience

Tools

Linux tooling

Python tooling

Job description

Mach Industries is recruiting an Autonomy Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy software powering perception, localization, navigation, planning, and mission autonomy across product lines. You may come from estimation, perception, ML, embedded systems, or planning but will work across the autonomy stack to deliver real capability from prototype to fielded systems.

The role emphasizes strong C++/Linux development, Python tooling, and collaboration with hardware, ML, and flight-test teams