Mission Software Engineer - Vehicle Software

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) is responsible for autonomous robotics systems like the Fury unmanned fighter jet and the Barracuda family of advanced effects. The AD&S Vehicle Software team is responsible for the software running on these systems.

As a Mission Software Engineer - Vehicle Software, you will:

• Drive solutions that balance end-user needs with the requirements of government customers, industry partners, and Anduril teams
• Develop and integrate software onto partner uncrewed platforms
• Design scalable software that runs on- and off-robotic platforms, with components reusable across Anduril product lines
• Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Support integration events, demonstrations, and test events, through to live flight tests
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Required qualifications:

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 3–5 years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Negative Vetting 2 security clearance (NV2)

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong background with a focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
• Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety-critical functionality
• Distributed communication networks and message standards
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

The salary range for this role is highly competitive, with equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers.