Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

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

The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralize them. The team provides mission-critical capabilities to warfighters, enabling them to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve critical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
• 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
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Travel 30% 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, or Computer Engineering
• 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
• 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
• Active U.S. Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NixOS
• 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
• Distributed communication networks and message standards
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

Benefits

• Healthcare Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you
• Income Protection: Life and disability insurance for all employees
• Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments, adoption, and gestational carriers
• Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7
• Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
• Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region
• Retirement Savings Plan: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax options