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# Senior Conceptual Design Engineer - Advanced Concepts

- **Company:** Mach, Inc
- **Location:** Huntington Beach, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $195,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA), Software Requirements Analysis, Creo
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c56f3ee90a392620

## About the Role

* 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.
 * Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams., * Experience designing missile systems, tactical UAS, or advanced aerospace vehicles.
 * Experience with low-observable vehicle design, signature reduction, or survivability analysis.
 * High-speed aerospace design experience.
 * Experience supporting prototype development and flight testing.
 * Experience with CAD tools such as NX, CATIA, or Creo.

## Description

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.
 * Apply expertise in vehicle design to assess architectural decisions and guide configuration development.
 * Support integration of vehicle-level requirements across aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, payloads, guidance, and manufacturing.
 * Analyze design alternatives, identify technical risks, and provide recommendations to support engineering decisions.
 * Collaborate with conceptual design and vehicle design engineers to mature advanced concepts into detailed vehicle designs.
 * Contribute technical expertise during design reviews, prototype development, and flight-test activities.
 * Mentor and support junior engineers through technical guidance and design reviews.


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