Staff Software Engineer

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 find other robots and knock them out of the sky. As a Software Engineering Lead on the Air Defense Engineering Team, you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead software sprints and drive release readiness while maintaining code quality across multiple sprint teams within the division.
• Manage the development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products and programs.
• Mentor a small team of engineers to foster strong development processes and practices as well as scale future leaders.
• Collaborate with internal team members and external partners to build technologies and processes which enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team software projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives.
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments.
• Drive, track, and communicate the progress of technical deliverables for the team or group’s key programs.
• Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood.
• Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.
• Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.

Core Requirements

• Strong engineering background preferably as a Software Engineer and/or Lead/Manager.
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as C++, Rust, Python, and Golang.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks.
• Extensive experience with Agile methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to own, track, and drive execution of sprints and Jira boards.
• Strong process and organization skills.
• Strong written / verbal communication skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 30-50% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up.
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Experience is rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.
• Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders.
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.

Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages.