Senior Software Engineer, Simulation & Test Infra

Mach-Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Equity participation

Professional development

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Simulation to build the simulation and validation infrastructure that enables rapid iteration and high confidence in real-world performance.

You will sit at the foundation of our autonomy stack, powering Monte Carlo, SITL, HITL and large-scale simulations across Mach product lines, with responsibilities spanning design, build, and optimization of test pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production systems or developer infrastructure.
• Proficiency in C++ and at least one systems language like Python, Rust, or C.
• Experience with simulation, testing, or validation frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build systems.
• Experience scaling test infrastructure across distributed or cloud compute environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain simulation and validation infrastructure for aircraft systems.
• Develop and operate SITL and HITL frameworks to support rapid development and validation.
• Build infra to emulate bare-metal drivers and avionics peripherals for early validation.
• Create and scale automated test pipelines that integrate simulation and HIL into CI/CD.
• Collaborate with autonomy, embedded, avionics, and systems engineers on test strategies.
• Improve simulation fidelity, determinism, and performance to match real aircraft dynamics.
• Optimize build/test infra with parallel execution and shared compute resources.
• Define and evolve metrics for test quality, coverage, and traceability.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

CI/CD

Docker

Distributed systems

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Simulation to build the simulation and validation infrastructure that enables rapid iteration and high confidence in real-world performance.

You will sit at the foundation of our autonomy stack, powering Monte Carlo, SITL, HITL and large-scale simulations across Mach product lines, with responsibilities spanning design, build, and optimization of test pipelines.