Jobs at Mach Industries

Own mass properties and vehicle-level performance across aerospace programs, including mass, center of gravity, inertia, budgets, margins, and performance baselines. Reconcile predictions with CAD, as-built hardware, analyses, and test data; assess design trade impacts; report trends and vehicle closure risks; and automate tracking and reporting in partnership with MDAO engineers.

Own and improve the calibration program for measurement equipment across engineering, manufacturing, testing, inspection, and operations. Manage equipment lifecycles, calibration intervals, vendors, records, certificates, traceability, and out-of-tolerance investigations. Analyze calibration data, coordinate corrective actions, establish equipment-selection criteria, and develop dashboards for calibration health and measurement risk. The role requires hands-on engagement with technical users, laboratories, production environments, and quality systems, with travel up to 50%.

Own the end-to-end system reliability program for autonomous defense platforms, including reliability targets, risk assessments, reliability modeling, failure analysis, qualification testing, corrective actions, and reliability growth. Integrate supplier and component evidence into platform-level decisions, direct cross-functional engineering efforts, and communicate residual risks and mitigations to leadership. The role is hands-on at the Huntington Beach site and requires up to 50% travel.

Serves as the independent airworthiness authority for flight systems and hazardous payload integrations. Owns certification strategies, safety cases, compliance documentation, Military Flight Release support, system safety assessments, and flight-readiness approvals. Oversees ground and flight testing, continuing airworthiness, munitions safety, and certification governance. Advises leadership and external defense authorities while mentoring engineering teams and approving safety-critical design changes.

Lead global sourcing and procurement for capital equipment, facilities infrastructure, tooling, logistics, MRO, and professional services. Own CapEx projects from supplier identification through negotiation, contracting, and delivery. Develop indirect procurement strategies, manage vendor performance, optimize total cost of ownership, coordinate budgets and contracts, and ensure compliance with ITAR, EAR, and NDAA requirements in a defense manufacturing environment.

Manage day-to-day procurement in the ERP: create and track POs, follow up with suppliers, resolve delivery and receiving issues, support clear-to-build reviews, assist supplier onboarding and vendor data, and support continuous improvement and cross-functional supply chain initiatives to ensure material availability for production and engineering programs.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering and manufacturing teams, sourcing and closing technical talent across mechanical, electrical, software, and GNC disciplines. Partner with hiring leaders to define requirements, build pipelines, improve recruiting processes, advise on talent markets and compensation, and represent the company at events and university partnerships.

Lead university and early-career recruiting across engineering, manufacturing, and technical roles. Manage full lifecycle hiring from outreach and events through interviews, offers, and onboarding. Build university partnerships, plan campus events, improve scalable recruiting processes, and advise on talent market trends and compensation.

Design and mature unmanned aircraft and missile systems from concept through detailed CAD definition. Perform vehicle sizing, layout and trade studies, produce CAD models and engineering drawings, collaborate with aerodynamics/propulsion/structures/manufacturing/flight-test, and support prototype fabrication and technical presentations.

Lead development and application of multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization (MDAO) workflows for conceptual and preliminary vehicle design. Support sizing, configuration trades, mission and performance analysis, optimization studies, and model validation using test and operational data. Mentor engineers and maintain reproducible analytical tooling and documentation.

Lead conceptual vehicle design for next-generation missile and low-observable aerospace systems. Develop and evaluate vehicle configurations, perform multidisciplinary trade studies, integrate requirements across disciplines, analyze risks, support prototype development and flight-test activities, and mentor junior engineers to mature concepts through preliminary design.

Build and scale ML training, data, and edge-inference infrastructure for autonomy: dataset ingestion/curation/versioning, distributed multi-GPU training, model registry and CI evaluation, real-time Jetson deployment and optimization, synthetic-data generation, drift detection, and cross-discipline integration from sim to flight.

Own bring-up and lifecycle of Linux mission computers on Jetson-class SoCs, integrate high-bandwidth sensors, build optimized real-time sensor-to-GPU pipelines, maintain on-target CUDA/TensorRT runtimes and embedded Linux images, harden platforms for flight, debug hardware/software integration, and contribute to autonomy runtime and middleware.

Leads manufacturing operations for flight hardware, prototypes, composite structures, and unmanned aircraft systems. Owns production scheduling, staffing, capacity, KPIs, quality, safety, budgets, and production ramp activities across multiple work centers. Develops frontline leaders and scalable manufacturing systems while partnering with engineering, quality, supply chain, and program teams. Ensures documentation, traceability, configuration control, and compliance with aerospace standards. Drives continuous improvement, constraint resolution, prototype-to-production transitions, and manufacturing readiness.

Own the end-to-end guidance, navigation, and control architecture for autonomous aircraft and defense platforms. Lead algorithm development, flight-dynamics modeling, simulation, embedded implementation, verification, flight testing, anomaly resolution, and vehicle integration. Establish technical standards, make system-level decisions, communicate risks, and mentor engineers through development, qualification, and deployment.

Leads supplier industrialization for avionics assemblies, PCBAs, cable harnesses, and electrical hardware. Develops qualification requirements, FMEAs, control plans, inspection methods, process validations, and production-readiness evidence. Evaluates SMT, soldering, harness fabrication, and electrical testing capabilities; monitors supplier quality and delivery metrics; and leads root-cause and corrective-action investigations. Supports design reviews, alternate sourcing, obsolescence, supplier transitions, and reliability improvements across prototype, qualification, production, and field support. Requires up to 100% travel.

Lead supplier industrialization for mechanical components, composite structures, castings, and related hardware from design release through production readiness. Evaluate supplier capabilities, develop qualification and validation plans, establish inspection and acceptance requirements, monitor quality and delivery performance, and resolve recurring nonconformances. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test teams, and suppliers across prototype, qualification, production, and field support. The role requires hands-on technical engagement and up to 100% travel.

Lead supplier industrialization for precision-machined and turbomachinery hardware from design release through production readiness. Evaluate machining and special-process capabilities, develop FMEAs, control plans, inspection requirements, and first-article criteria, and monitor supplier quality, delivery, yield, and process capability. Investigate nonconformances and hardware failures, drive corrective actions, and support supplier transitions, redesigns, reliability growth, and prototype-to-production scaling. The role requires hands-on supplier and facility engagement and up to 100% travel.

Lead electrical design for next-generation autonomous defense platforms including PCB, embedded electronics, power systems, high-speed interfaces, prototyping, testing, documentation, and cross-functional integration while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring regulatory and quality compliance.

Leads the technical execution of autonomous defense-system testing, customer demonstrations, operational evaluations, and deployed missions. Integrates autonomy software, communications, payloads, sensors, ground systems, and workflows; develops mission concepts; resolves multidisciplinary hardware, software, networking, and systems issues; and represents the company with customers, government stakeholders, and operational users. The role also improves operational engineering processes and incorporates field lessons into future product development.