Real-Time Autonomy & Perception Software Engineer

Mach Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries is building an AI‑forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and sensing may be unavailable. You will design and implement estimation and sensor‑fusion algorithms powering navigation across product lines, working at the intersection of perception, state estimation, and embedded systems.

You will prototype in C++, optimize real‑time software on Linux/embedded, and validate in field deployments with a focus on production delivery and robust performance.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with either a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Aerospace Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and productionize vision navigation and targeting features end-to-end from sim to HITL to flight with production C++.
• Turn detections (EO/IR/RF/radar) into well‑posed measurement models with latencies/covariances; make the estimator decision‑aware without corrupting state.
• Stabilize GNSS to VIO handover (adaptive covariances, gating, hysteresis, reset‑less alignment) to eliminate jumps and estimator resets.
• Build and optimize real‑time software on Linux/embedded; profile CPU/GPU, vectorize hot paths; optional CUDA/TensorRT on Jetson hardware.
• Own calibration and time‑sync across IMU/cameras/radar/LiDAR/GNSS; validate in flight.
• Create evaluation pipelines and dashboards for drift, handover stability, relocalization, track quality
• Integrate global aids (maps, magnetics, radar) for long‑term consistency and loop‑closure robustness.

Skills

Modern C++

Linux

Python

Debugging

Profiling

Testing

SLAM

State estimation

Ceres/GTSAM

Camera models

PyTorch

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Robotics/Electrical/Aerospace or related field

Tools

CUDA

TensorRT

ONNX Runtime

NVIDIA Jetson

ROS 2

Docker

Job description

Mach Industries is building an AI‑forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and sensing may be unavailable. You will design and implement estimation and sensor‑fusion algorithms powering navigation across product lines, working at the intersection of perception, state estimation, and embedded systems.

You will prototype in C++, optimize real‑time software on Linux/embedded, and validate in field deployments with a focus on production delivery and robust performance.