# Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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.

Anduril's Strategic Defense business line is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for deploying and supporting Anduril's products all over the world.

Responsibilities:

- Support military air defense projects by executing technical operations, conducting field maintenance, providing customer field support and training

- Tackle complex issues related to hardware, software, and networking in unstructured situations, driving them to resolution

- Communicate field issue status to internal and customer teams, keeping them informed

- Support the development and implementation of comprehensive operational and logistical plans for various events

- Ensure high availability and performance of air defense systems

- Maintain support plans for hardware and software

- Assist in event planning and resource allocation, keeping key stakeholders informed about Technical Operations requirements

- Incident response root-cause analyses (RCAs) for defense systems in the field

- Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures

- Maintain up-to-date documentation

Requirements:

- Ability to travel to Asia Pacific region for up to one months at a time (up to 50% of the year)

- 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:

- 5+ years of experience of strong problem solving in unstructured environments at the interface of hardware, software, and networking

- B.S. in computer science, or related technical field

- Network+ and Linux+ or equivalent experience preferred

- Prior military or overseas contracting experience

- Experience with Kubernetes

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to ensure you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- React
- Angular
- Kubernetes
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Mathematics
- Physics

### Nice to have
- Network+
- Linux+
- prior military or overseas contracting experience

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