# Senior Flight Software Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Seattle, Washington, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will be responsible for developing the embedded software that powers Anduril's aircraft. You will work alongside a team of engineers with a diverse set of backgrounds and skills, and will own sections of the flight stack end-to-end. Your decisions will have a large impact on the company now and into the future, as well as on our customers.

Key responsibilities include:

- Design and implement vehicle control systems.

- Develop embedded software for pre-emptible Linux or RTOS applications.

- Develop device drivers, protocols, and APIs for aircraft sensors.

- Integrate new features and sensors into flight controller software.

- Integrate guidance and control algorithms with the flight software stack.

- Create Software-In-The-Loop (SITL) and Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) test fixtures and automation.

- Analyze flight test results and iterate quickly on fixes and improvements.

- Support device manufacturing efforts, debugging, and production-level test.

- Support operational aircraft deployments and field troubleshooting.

- Mentor junior engineers and help improve team engineering practices and test infrastructure.

Required qualifications include:

- 4+ years of C++ or Rust programming experience.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- Direct experience with embedded software or other safety-critical systems.

- Background in low-level embedded software architecture, design and development.

- Low-level device driver development experience; familiarity with both microcontrollers and application processors.

- Comfortable with typical embedded systems tools, compilers, debuggers, and IDEs.

- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols such as CAN, CAN FD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, etc.

- Strong debugging skills, comfortable using instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers.

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

Preferred qualifications include:

- 6+ years of C++ or Rust programming experience creating clean, efficient, and reliable code.

- Strong vehicle systems and avionics design knowledge.

- Experience building flight stacks or working with PX4/ArduPilot or proprietary autopilots.

- Familiarity with control systems, state estimation, and guidance algorithms.

- Bias toward delivery and rapid iteration to discover the right engineering investments.

- Willingness to take calculated risks and full accountability for outcomes.

- Passion for solving real-world problems quickly and effectively.

- Track record of designing, building, and delivering useful software to users , we want to hear war stories!

- Experience with SITL/HITL frameworks, CI for embedded systems, and creating reproducible test environments.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Rust
- Embedded software
- Low-level embedded software architecture
- Device driver development
- Communications busses and protocols
- Debugging skills

### Nice to have
- Clean, efficient, and reliable code
- Vehicle systems and avionics design knowledge
- Flight stack development
- Control systems, state estimation, and guidance algorithms
- Delivery and rapid iteration
- SITL/HITL frameworks
- CI for embedded systems

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