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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # MDAO Engineer - **Company:** Mach, Inc - **Location:** Max, ND, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, C++ (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Operational Data Store, Smoke Testing, Software Engineering, Test Data, Model Validation, Julia, Software Version Control - **Published:** August 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d2526b53-2177-43f1-87e4-f8fc198fad87 ## About the Role The ideal candidate combines strong aerospace engineering judgment, practical vehicle design intuition, and the ability to develop, modify, and validate engineering analysis tools., * Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field. * 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. * Strong engineering judgment and ability to communicate assumptions, limitations, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly. * Experience working in fast-paced, multidisciplinary engineering environments., * Advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field. * Experience with UAV, aircraft, missile, or defense product development. * Experience in conceptual design, preliminary design, configuration/sizing, mission performance, or operational performance analysis. * Experience incorporating test, flight, or operational data into engineering models. * Experience with MDAO, optimization, surrogate modeling, uncertainty analysis, or multidisciplinary trade-space exploration. * Experience with OpenMDAO, pyOptSparse, Dymos, GPkit, SUAVE, in-house MDAO frameworks, or similar tools. * Experience helping define analytical workflows, model validation practices, or design study best practices. ## Description 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., * Develop and apply MDAO models, methods, and workflows for conceptual and preliminary vehicle design. * Support vehicle sizing, configuration trades, mission analysis, and performance assessments across Mach's product suite. * Improve analytical tools used to evaluate vehicle concepts, including models for aerodynamics, propulsion, mass properties, structures, controls, mission performance, and operational constraints. * Partner with configuration, sizing, performance, test, and discipline engineering teams to ensure MDAO workflows reflect real design needs and produce decision-relevant outputs. * Incorporate higher-fidelity analysis, ground test data, flight test data, and operational performance data to improve model accuracy and future design decisions. * Conduct optimization studies, sensitivity analyses, and trade studies to identify key design drivers and communicate implications to engineering stakeholders. * Help define assumptions, constraints, objectives, and figures of merit for vehicle-level design studies. * Maintain effective analytical workflows using practical software development practices, including version control, documentation, reproducibility, and basic testing. * Mentor engineers contributing to or using MDAO workflows, particularly around modeling assumptions, trade study setup, and interpretation of results. * Contribute to the technical roadmap for MDAO capability, balancing near-term design support with longer-term model and workflow improvements. ## Related Videos - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Leveraging Large Language Models for Legacy Code Translation: Challenges and Solutions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1157-leveraging-large-language-models-for-legacy-code-translation-challenges-and-solutions) - [Building and Modernising Apps with Agentic AI - Julia Kordick](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1832-building-and-modernising-apps-with-agentic-ai-julia-kordick) - [Dirty Tests And How To Clean Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/515-dirty-tests-and-how-to-clean-them) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Building a hypercar from scratch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [What Jobs Can You Get with a Software Engineering Degree?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/398-what-jobs-can-you-get-with-a-software-engineering-degree)