Senior Mission Software Engineer

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

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. As a Mission Software Engineer on the Maneuver Dominance team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more.

Responsibilities

• Own the feature development and software solutions that are deployed to customers, and lead complex, cross-cutting technical efforts from concept to deployment.
• 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.
• Work closely with Anduril and 3rd party vehicle hardware teams, as well as operational subject matter experts to align on requirements during product development and iterate towards a final design.
• Write and maintain core libraries and services that perform critical functions for collaborative teams of robots.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers, and help raise the engineering bar across the team through code review and design leadership.
• Travel up to 20% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

Required Qualifications

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 5+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
• A track record of leading technical projects and delivering complex software systems to production.
• 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.
• A bias for action, extreme ownership, and the drive to see projects through from concept to production.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active UKSV Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems.
• Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments.
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics.

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