# Principal GNC Engineer at Mach Industries

- Company: Mach Industries
- What the company does: Mach Industries is building faster, smarter defense infrastructure for the modern era. Backed by Khosla and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.machindustries.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/machindustries/jobs/4387872009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mach-industries-principal-gnc-engineer/

## About the role

Mach Industries is seeking a Principal GNC Engineer to define, develop, and flight-prove the GNC architecture for autonomous aircraft and related defense platforms. You will own system-level technical decisions across guidance, navigation, flight controls, modeling and simulation, embedded implementation, and flight test.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field
- Significant experience designing, implementing, and testing GNC systems for aircraft, missiles, launch vehicles, spacecraft, high-performance UAVs, or comparable autonomous systems, typically gained through 10 or more years of relevant work
- Demonstrated ownership of a GNC system through multiple phases of the development lifecycle, including requirements, analysis, implementation, verification, integration, and flight test
- Deep knowledge of flight dynamics, stability and control, classical and modern control theory, state estimation, trajectory generation, and system identification
- Experience developing robust algorithms for nonlinear systems with real-world actuator, sensor, computational, and timing constraints
- Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink for modeling and analysis, plus C or modern C++ for production or embedded implementations

Tags: Guidance, Navigation & Control