# Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines.

As a Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy, you will lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated into our products. This includes systems analysis, sensor selection and integration, perception architecture and implementation, motion planning, health management, behaviour analysis, simulation and test infrastructure, and interfaces with lower- and higher-level systems.

Responsibilities:

- Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams

- Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms

- Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies

- Lead teams that architect, design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems

- Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures

- Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack

- Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles

- Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers

- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience

- 7+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development

- Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors

- Demonstrated knowledge of computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, or machine learning

- Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system

- Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system

- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies

- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with autonomous systems in various domains

- Experience with simulation tools and frameworks

- Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems

- Familiarity with System Engineering concepts

Benefits:

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery, and other support

Salary Range: $253,000-$336,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- computer vision
- sensor fusion
- machine learning
- autonomous vehicles

### Nice to have
- simulation tools
- System Engineering
- safety standards
- autonomous systems

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