Autonomy Software Engineer - Mission-Centric UAV Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity / stock options

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to translate mission objectives into autonomous behavior for aerial platforms. You will design mission-planning, decision-making, task sequencing, and contingency-management software, linking high-level intent with vehicle autonomy, flight software, perception, and ground-control systems.

This broad role requires production-quality C++/Python skills, experience on Linux, and the ability to take capabilities from

Qualifications

• Strong software-engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
• Experience developing production software on Linux.
• Experience developing software for autonomous systems, robotics, or aerospace platforms.
• Hands-on experience implementing one or more mission-autonomy capabilities, such as task planning, behavior trees, state machines, hierarchical planning, decision-making, mission execution, or contingency management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy mission-autonomy software using modern C++
• Use Python to develop tooling for analysis, simulation, test automation, and mission evaluation.
• Develop software for mission planning, task sequencing, behavior orchestration, state management, and autonomous mission execution.
• Build decision-making and contingency-management systems that respond to vehicle health, sensor availability, communications loss, environmental changes, and mission updates.
• Translate concepts of operation, mission objectives, system requirements, and test objectives into autonomous behaviors and software interfaces.
• Integrate mission software with flight controls, navigation, perception, payloads, communications, ground-control systems, and operator interfaces.
• Design reliable interfaces between high-level mission logic and lower-level vehicle capabilities.
• Develop systems that operate when communications, GNSS, sensing, or other resources are degraded or unavailable.
• Support multi-vehicle mission execution, distributed coordination, and collaborative behaviors where applicable.
• Build simulation scenarios, software-in-the-loop tests, hardware-in-the-loop tests, mission replays, and automated regression tests.
• Define mission-level measures of performance and develop evaluation tooling for mission completion, timing, robustness, fault recovery, resource utilization, and operator workload.
• Analyze telemetry, logs, test results, and flight data to identify failures, improve behavior, and drive rapid iteration.
• Work with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver complete vehicle capabilities.
• Participate in ground and flight testing, including debugging integrated systems in field environments.
• Contribute to software architecture, code reviews, development practices, technical documentation, and CI.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Autonomous systems

Software architecture

Debugging

Team collaboration

Tools

Git

ROS

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to translate mission objectives into autonomous behavior for aerial platforms. You will design mission-planning, decision-making, task sequencing, and contingency-management software, linking high-level intent with vehicle autonomy, flight software, perception, and ground-control systems.

This broad role requires production-quality C++/Python skills, experience on Linux, and the ability to take capabilities from