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Senior Conceptual Design Engineer - Advanced Concepts
At a Glance
- Location
- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Mach Industries
- Posted
- 2026-07-29
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Aerospace
- Defense
- Education
- Engineering
- Government
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
Benefits & Perks
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Requirements
8+ years of experience in aerospace vehicle design, aircraft design, missile design, or related advanced aerospace development.
Demonstrated experience developing or evaluating complete vehicle configurations.
Strong understanding of aerospace vehicle performance, aerodynamics, propulsion integration, structures, and multidisciplinary design tradeoffs.
Experience making engineering recommendations involving complex and competing system requirements.
Experience designing missile systems, tactical UAS, or advanced aerospace vehicles.
High-speed aerospace design experience.
Responsibilities
Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Vehicle Design Engineer — Advanced Concepts to support the development of next-generation missile and low-observable aerospace systems.
In this role, you will apply deep vehicle design expertise to develop advanced configurations, evaluate complex design tradeoffs, and support multidisciplinary engineering decisions from early concept development through preliminary design.
You will work closely with engineers across aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, guidance, manufacturing, and test to mature innovative aerospace concepts into viable vehicles.
We are particularly interested in engineers with experience in missile systems, low-observable platforms, high-speed vehicles, or other advanced aerospace applications.
Develop and evaluate advanced aircraft and missile vehicle configurations from mission requirements.
Perform multidisciplinary trade studies balancing aerodynamic performance, weight, propulsion integration, manufacturability, survivability, and mission effectiveness.
About the Company
Founded in 2022,
Mach Industries
is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing
next-generation autonomous defense platforms
. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering
scalable, decentralized defense systems