Staff Software Engineer, Maritime Enabling Technology

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

Anduril's Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated into our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors.

Responsibilities:

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
• Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies.
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems.
• Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off-platform, using a variety of technologies.
• Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing.
• Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a leadership position within a high-performing technology organization.
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Capacity to work holistically on software-enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system.
• Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go.
• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React.
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies.
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics.
• Experience with modeling and simulation.
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software.
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts.
• Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software Engineering.
• Desire to grow into a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.