mach
Senior MDAO Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 5+ 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
5+ years of relevant aerospace engineering experience, or an advanced degree with significant relevant experience in vehicle design, MDAO, sizing, configuration development, performance analysis, or computational design.
Experience with aircraft, UAS, missile, spacecraft, or other aerospace vehicle sizing, configuration trades, mission analysis, or performance assessment.
Broad understanding of how aerospace disciplines influence vehicle design, including aerodynamics, propulsion, mass properties, structures, controls, and mission performance.
Experience developing or modifying engineering analysis tools using Python, MATLAB, C++, Julia, or a similar language.
Ability to set up and interpret trade studies, optimization studies, sensitivity analyses, or design-of-experiments.
Experience with UAV, aircraft, missile, or defense product development.
Responsibilities
Mach Industries is seeking a Senior MDAO Engineer to help develop and apply the multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization methods used to size, evaluate, and mature vehicles across Mach's product suite.
This role sits at the intersection of vehicle configuration, sizing, mission performance, operational data, and analytical tool development.
You will work with configuration, performance, test, and discipline engineering teams to improve the models and workflows used to evaluate vehicle concepts and understand mission capability.
You will also directly support trade studies, sizing studies, and performance assessments as needed in a fast-moving, multidisciplinary environment.
The ideal candidate combines strong aerospace engineering judgment, practical vehicle design intuition, and the ability to develop, modify, and validate engineering analysis tools.
Develop and apply MDAO models, methods, and workflows for conceptual and preliminary vehicle design.
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