Mission Autonomy Software Engineer

Mach Industries Inc.; Huntington Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to build software translating mission objectives into autonomous behavior for aerial platforms. You will connect mission intent to vehicle autonomy, flight software, perception, payloads, and ground-control systems.

You will write production-quality C++ and Python, enable mission planning and contingency management, and drive integration from simulation to flight test and deployment across system boundaries.

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 mission-autonomy capabilities, such as task planning, behavior trees, state machines, hierarchy planning, decision-making, or contingency management.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, interfaces, concurrency, data flow, and system-level debugging.
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented software.
• Experience taking software from prototype through integration, testing, and deployment on real hardware.
• Ability to diagnose failures using logs, telemetry, simulation results, and observed system behavior.
• Strong engineering judgment and integrity when balancing mission effectiveness, safety, reliability, latency, resource constraints, and operational simplicity.

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 interfaces between high-level mission logic and lower-level vehicle capabilities.
• Develop systems that operate during degraded or unavailable communications, GNSS, or sensing.
• 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, and fault recovery.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Job description

Mach Industries seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to build software translating mission objectives into autonomous behavior for aerial platforms. You will connect mission intent to vehicle autonomy, flight software, perception, payloads, and ground-control systems.

You will write production-quality C++ and Python, enable mission planning and contingency management, and drive integration from simulation to flight test and deployment across system boundaries.