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title: Lead Software Engineer, Mission System, Maritime
description: We are looking for a Lead Mission Systems Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing Maritime team in Boston or Quincy, MA. In this role, you will design and develop the core decision-making and autonomy software that powers our autonomous underwater vehicles. You will lead the architecture, implementation, and deployment of the logic that enables these systems to understand their environment, navigate safely, respond to obstacles or threats, and execute complex missions with limited human involvement. As a technical leader, you will provide hands-on contributions across software development, establish a long-term software roadmap, and lead the team through execution of that plan. Collaborating closely with program leadership and cross-functional teams from other Anduril products, you'll ensure that designs align with customer requirements while maintaining traceability to program office technical decisions. You will act as a subject matter expert in mission systems development and integration, presenting to customers and demonstrating overall system performance. If you enjoy tackling complex technical challenges and owning the development of high-impact products, this role is for you. In this role, you will: Act as a technical leader on a small team owning software for Copperhead Draw on both your technical expertise and leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive projects to completion Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of payloads and mission systems Act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution Organize integration events, scoping key deliverables and impact to broader program Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system Leverage…
date posted: 2026-04-18T15:45:09.710Z
valid through: 2026-10-02T22:01:16.461Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: C++
skills: Rust
skills: Linux development environment
skills: Data structures
skills: Algorithms
skills: Concurrency
skills: Code optimization
skills: Troubleshooting
skills: Analysis
skills: Distributed software platform
skills: Application architectures
skills: Dynamic network topologies
skills: Communication skills
skills: Collaboration
skills: U.S. Secret security clearance
skills: Python
skills: Go
skills: High-performance computing
skills: Network programming
skills: Fault tolerance
skills: Fault handling
skills: DevSecOps
skills: Sensor integration
skills: Tracking and estimation
skills: Motion planning
skills: Perception
skills: Localization
skills: Mapping
skills: Guidance
skills: Navigation
skills: Control
skills: Robotics systems
skills: Common interfaces
skills: Protocols
hiring organization: Anduril Industries
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Boston
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 220000
    max value: 292000
    unit text: YEAR