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Anduril Industries

Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries
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senior full-time $191,000-$253,000 USD Costa Mesa, California

First indexed 26 Sept 2026

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.

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