Senior Flight Software Engineer

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

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you will independently drive the delivery of a variety of embedded and/or safety critical software integrated into our products. This includes device management, drivers, firmware, power management, networking, and contingency management and recovery.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces.
• Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines.
• Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
• Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
• Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experienced and proficient at writing C.
• Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
• Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc).
• Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits package