New Graduate Flight Test Engineer

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries is seeking a New Graduate Flight Test & Operations Engineer to support testing and operation of next-generation autonomous defense platforms in Huntington Beach, CA. This role spans Flight Test and Flight Operations, offering exposure to test planning, vehicle operations, field testing, and mission execution.

You will collaborate with flight operations, systems, GNC, software, avionics, and energetics engineers to plan and safely execute campaigns, from ground tests to flight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Graduating by summer 2027.
• Relevant internships, research, academic projects, flight programs, or technical student organizations.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of ground and flight-test operations for unmanned aircraft systems.
• Develop test plans, procedures, concepts of operations, test cards, readiness-review materials, and post-test reports.
• Coordinate test activities across flight operations, systems, GNC, avionics, software, energetics, and other engineering teams.
• Support test campaigns through preparation, systems checks, dry runs, readiness reviews, day-of-test execution, and post-test analysis.
• Assist with aircraft preparation, ground-control-station setup, test equipment, data systems, and range infrastructure.
• Help identify test requirements, instrumentation needs, operational constraints, and success criteria.
• Monitor vehicle and test-system performance during ground and flight operations.
• Collect, organize, and analyze test data to communicate results and support engineering decisions.
• Participate in root-cause investigations and help resolve issues identified during testing.
• Support the coordination of flight demonstrations and operations at private and Department of Defense test ranges.
• Contribute to test-site procedures, safety analyses, operating policies, and process improvements.
• Help scale Mach’s flight-test and flight-operations capabilities as products and programs grow.

Skills

Strong communication

Organized

Hands-on engineer

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical/Systems Engineering

Graduating by Summer 2027

Tools

Mission Planner

Ground-control-station software

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Mach Industries is seeking a New Graduate Flight Test & Operations Engineer to support testing and operation of next-generation autonomous defense platforms in Huntington Beach, CA. This role spans Flight Test and Flight Operations, offering exposure to test planning, vehicle operations, field testing, and mission execution.

You will collaborate with flight operations, systems, GNC, software, avionics, and energetics engineers to plan and safely execute campaigns, from ground tests to flight.