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From the employer's careers site First seen 22 Sept 2026 · Still live on 4 Nov 2026

Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries Costa Mesa and 3 other locations
All 4 locations
  • Costa Mesa, California, United States
  • Reston, Virginia, United States
  • Seattle, Washington, United States
  • Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$166,000-$220,000 USD per year

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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 Strategic Defense team at Anduril is at the forefront of incubating and maturing AI-native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain.

As a Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers.
  • Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
  • Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
  • Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
  • Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
  • Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
  • Travel up to 50% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Requirements:

  • Must be willing to travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific.
  • Fluent Mandarin language skills.
  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
  • Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python.
  • Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
  • A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of professional industry experience working.
  • Developing software/hardware for safety critical functionality.
  • Distributed communication networks and message standards.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

Skills

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of professional industry experience working
  • Developing software/hardware for safety critical functionality
  • Distributed communication networks and message standards

Ready to apply?

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