Firmware Validation Engineer – Avionics & Flight Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity participation

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA is seeking engineers to lead firmware validation of vehicle components and system-level validation. You will define and execute validation plans from design to manufacturing, collaborating with Firmware and Avionics teams.

You will develop SITL/HITL scenarios, run tests, troubleshoot issues, and help scale tooling across airframe variants, with opportunities for growth in a fast-moving defense tech startup.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Strong Electrical Engineering fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python and C.

Responsibilities

• Close collaboration with Firmware Engineers, Avionics Engineers, Manufacturing and Flight Operations to enable high quality firmware releases used in flight test operations and deployed to our customer products.
• Design and execution of system level (airframe) and individual component comprehensive test specifications (nominal and fault-injection scenarios).
• Develop software in Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulation test scenarios supporting the test specifications.
• Execute SITL and HITL tests and investigate issues identified in the test runs.
• Reproduce and investigate issues found during test flight operations.
• Constantly improve the available tooling and bring up new tools that will improve the validation iteration times and will scale to all current and future airframe variants.

Skills

Python

C

Electrical engineering fundamentals

Education

Electrical Engineering/Mechatronics/Computer Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Embedded Linux

ARM embedded systems

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA is seeking engineers to lead firmware validation of vehicle components and system-level validation. You will define and execute validation plans from design to manufacturing, collaborating with Firmware and Avionics teams.

You will develop SITL/HITL scenarios, run tests, troubleshoot issues, and help scale tooling across airframe variants, with opportunities for growth in a fast-moving defense tech startup.