Staff Software Engineer, Production Solutions

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

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril's hardware enterprise from design to sustainment. You'll architect the distributed systems within our Manufacturing (Production Solutions) team in Forge MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that orchestrate Anduril's production operations,work order management, scheduling, material flow, and capacity planning,turning factories into adaptive, software-defined production networks.

Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Execution

• Define and drive technical architecture for Manufacturing Production Solutions
• Make decisions on system design, scalability patterns, integration strategies, and platform vs. build tradeoffs that shape team execution
• Architect and implement complex distributed systems
• Build mission-critical services, APIs, and tooling that enable safe, fast delivery across manufacturing production workflows (work orders, scheduling, material tracking, capacity planning)
• Lead by example with engineering excellence
• Establish patterns through hands-on work: comprehensive testing, deployment safety (blue/green/canary), infrastructure as code, observability, and operational rigor

Cross-Team Influence & Collaboration

• Bridge product and platform teams
• Collaborate with Platform/Foundations to shape shared infrastructure based on Manufacturing needs while driving adoption of platform capabilities
• Partner across MES product teams
• Integrate Manufacturing Production Solutions into cohesive manufacturing experiences, evolve data models across production/quality/supply chain domains, and drive technical consensus on cross-cutting concerns
• Represent manufacturing domain technically
• Work with architecture, security, operations, and infrastructure teams to ensure production operations requirements influence broader technical decisions

Team & Technical Standards

• Raise the technical bar for the team
• Through rigorous code review, architecture discussions, establishing shared ownership models, and improving practices that balance velocity with correctness
• Remove friction and unblock execution
• Identify systemic technical issues, eliminate single points of failure, and create leverage through automation and improved tooling

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in a software engineering role building products in fast-paced environments
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams
• Drive architectural consensus, build alignment, and lead technical initiatives beyond a single team
• Experience working with large enterprise applications and platforms with high availability requirements
• Strong full-stack capabilities with expertise in modern web technologies
• JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and web frameworks (Next.js, Remix, etc.)
• Systems thinking and domain translation
• Ability to understand manufacturing operations requirements and design scalable technical architectures that enable production workflows at enterprise scale
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence stakeholders, translate ambiguous manufacturing requirements and build cross-team alignment
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS, Typescript, and React/Remix
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments
• Demonstrated successes in scaling and maturing software development processes, team culture and methods, and ability to balance short-term and long-term trade offs
• Manufacturing operations domain knowledge
• Experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES), enterprise resource planning (ERP), production scheduling systems, work order management, or supply chain management platforms
• Experience in defense, autonomy, robotics, or mission-critical systems
• Experience with AI/LLM integration