Staff Software Engineer, AI

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

The Internal AI team builds Anduril’s AI infrastructure and tooling that all employees across the company rely on every day. Autonomous coding agents and agentic automation systems are the cornerstone of these capabilities, and we continually push the boundaries of what AI can do in terms of code generation, workflow autonomy, and reasoning.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

AI is the future operating system of Anduril, and we need creative and enthusiastic AI engineers to help us realize that vision. We’re seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to join a scrappy team dedicated to the continued build out of our internal AI ecosystem, encompassing infrastructure and tooling for autonomous coding and agentic automation.

Responsibilities:

• Propose, prototype, build, and deploy agentic systems that solve real world problems, leveraging novel state-of-the-art techniques in the field
• Work cross-functionally with different business lines across Anduril to scope new solutions that address their pain points and manual workflows
• Build and maintain the data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components that applied AI use cases depend on
• Learn and evangelize. You will be an expert on current AI technologies and trends (and their practical applications)

Requirements:

• An AI mindset; have a deep interest and enthusiasm for emerging AI technologies and their practical implementations
• Creative problem-solving skills with an ability to simplify workflows into modular, reusable automation components
• Raw intellectual horsepower
• 1-2 years of experience taking AI systems into production or 2-4 years of experience with traditional ML
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or related technical degree
• Experience using and optimizing AI coding assistants in a collaborative production environment
• Strong stakeholder and cross-functional communication skills; able to gather workflow requirements and convert them into technical automation.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical experience enabling agents, skills, MCP, and other emerging AI technologies in professional environment
• Experience with process automation, event-driven architecture, and a modular / “unix daemon” mindset on software
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments, with demonstrated success in scaling and maturing software development processes
• Familiarity with cloud services

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.