Mach Industries · 23 hours ago
GNC Engineer (Controls)
Huntington Beach, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry, Mid Level
0+ years expMach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. The role involves supporting control design and evaluation for fixed-wing aircraft, including designing control systems, executing verification and validation work, and participating in flight-test planning and execution.
National DefenseIndustrialManufacturingDronesDrone ManagementInfrastructureNational Security
Responsibilities
Design control systems within defined architecture and requirements for fixed-wing vehicles
Design and implement control laws accounting for actuator limits, time delays, and sensor noise as part of the controls team
Participate in system identification and aerodynamic model development from wind-tunnel, CFD, and flight-test data
Execute verification & validation work: SIL/HIL campaigns, Monte Carlo, and flight-readiness criteria; communicate findings to the team and program leadership
Participate in flight-test planning and execution; analyze logs, tune controllers, and iterate safely and quickly
Learn from the controls team, carry your work through design/code reviews to meet roadmap goals and milestones
Qualification
Required
Education: Bachelors in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics
Experience: 0-5 years designing, analyzing and fielding flight control systems for fixed-wing aircraft or high-performance UAVs, including flight test
Deep knowledge of flight dynamics, stability/controllability, and actuator/sensor modeling
Familiarity with modern C++ for embedded real-time implementations; strong MATLAB/Simulink/Python for modeling, ID, and analysis
Familiarity with verification workflows (SIL/HIL), requirements traceability, and safety reviews
Familiarity with modern software workflows (git, code review, issue tracking) and data/telemetry analysis
Preferred
Practical and/or academic experience with modern/MIMO control design (LQR, LQG, LTR), system ID techniques, adaptive control
Experience with energy-based control, autothrottle, sideslip/yaw coordination, and advanced control allocation for over-actuated systems
Experience integrating with PX4 and ROS 2. Exposure to DO-178C/DO-331/ARP4754A processes or equivalent rigor
Comfort optimizing for resource-constrained processors and hard real-time constraints (latency/jitter budgets, numerics)
Benefits
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Opportunities for professional development
Company
Mach Industries
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that develops unmanned systems and defense infrastructure.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$184.7MKey Investors
Bedrock,Khosla VenturesBedrockSequoia Capital
2025-06-17Series B· $100M
2023-10-04Series A· $79M
2023-06-15Seed· $5.7M
Leadership Team
Ethan Thornton
Member
Recent News
2026-02-10
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