Software Engineer, Robotics

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer specialising in Robotics to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Software Engineer on the Air Defence team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving autonomy, systems integration, robotics, networking, and more. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain core libraries and services that perform critical functions for collaborative teams of robots, such as frame transformations, targeting and guidance, etc.
• Own feature development and rollout of large, complex features for our products, including 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.
• Implement scalable sub-systems including sensor processing, perception, tracking, motion planning, health management, anomaly detection, simulation, testing fixtures, and vehicle interfaces
• Work closely with Anduril and 3rd party robotic platform hardware teams, as well as operational subject matter experts to align on requirements during product development and iterate towards a final design.

Requirements

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• 3+ years of C++ or Rust experience in a Linux development environment
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimisation
• Experience troubleshooting and analysing remotely deployed software systems
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• MS, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering
• Experience programming for embedded and physical devices
• Experience in one or more of the following: motion planning, perception, localisation, mapping, controls, and related system performance metrics
• Understanding of systems software (kernel, device drivers, system calls) and optimising for limited resources