Mission Autonomy Software Engineer - UAV Autonomy Equity

Mach Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity grants

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to translate mission objectives into reliable autonomous behavior across autonomous aerial platforms. You will design mission-planning, decision-making, task-execution, and contingency-management capabilities, integrating with flight controls, perception, payloads, and ground-control systems.

This broad software-engineering role requires production-quality C++ and Python, strong debugging across system boundaries, and the ability to

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 planning, behavior trees, state machines, or contingency management.
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented software.
• Experience taking software from prototype through integration, testing, and deployment on real hardware.

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 responding to vehicle health, sensor availability, and mission updates.
• Translate operation concepts into autonomous behaviors and well-defined software interfaces.
• Integrate mission software with flight controls, navigation, perception, payloads, and ground-control systems.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Autonomy software

Robotics

Aerospace

Job description

Mach Industries seeks a Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy to translate mission objectives into reliable autonomous behavior across autonomous aerial platforms. You will design mission-planning, decision-making, task-execution, and contingency-management capabilities, integrating with flight controls, perception, payloads, and ground-control systems.

This broad software-engineering role requires production-quality C++ and Python, strong debugging across system boundaries, and the ability to