Software Engineer, Sentry Software (Ground Based Air Defense)

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

The Sentry Tower Software team develops robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities, monitoring the perimeter of secure areas, land or sea, for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels.

We are hiring a Software Engineer to develop and own the software for ground-based air defense variants, funded by and delivered to our Air Defense program.

You will work in the same declarative NixOS platform the rest of the team builds on, owning your variants' slice of it: product configuration, radar and camera payload integration, networking, manufacturing test hooks, and the software update path.

Responsibilities:

• Own the software configuration for the Air Defense tower variants: product definitions, payload and sensor configuration, networking, and image builds in our declarative platform.
• Integrate and support the variants' sensor payloads, particularly radar and infrared camera services, including the configuration and behavior differences that separate them from our perimeter security products.
• Develop features driven by Air Defense program requirements, working from program needs through design, implementation, and delivery into a shipping product.
• Migrate the variants' legacy configuration onto our modern platform base, replacing product-specific one-offs with the common, composable modules the rest of the fleet uses.
• Own the variants' software update and deployment path, and the manufacturing test configuration that validates units as they're built.
• Support the product in the field and on the line: triage issues, reproduce and root-cause them, fix what's yours, and drive what isn't with the owning team.
• Work with the Air Defense program's engineers and stakeholders to keep requirements, schedule, and technical reality aligned.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering building and shipping real systems.
• Proficiency in Rust or C++, with the ability to work across an existing codebase you didn't write.
• Solid Linux systems fundamentals: the command line, systemd, networking basics, and log-driven debugging.
• Practical experience integrating software with hardware, whether sensors, embedded devices, or instrumentation, and comfort working on a bench with real equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to own a piece of a larger system end to end, including the unglamorous parts: configuration, deployment, testing, and support.
• Clear written communication, since you'll be the interface between a program's requirements and the team's implementation.
• US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with radar, RF systems, or air surveillance and tracking.
• Experience with camera or imaging pipelines, especially infrared.
• Experience with declarative configuration management or infrastructure-as-code. Nix or NixOS is what we use; adjacent tooling is a fine starting point.
• Python for tooling, scripting, and test automation.
• Robotics experience, or work with motion control and pointing systems.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary: $167,000-$222,000 USD
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package