# Senior Software Engineer (Android VMs)

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**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.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and harden Android VMs running on crosvm and contribute to our platform security work.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain Android VMs running on crosvm, including VMM configuration, device models (virtio), and guest/host integration

- Bring up and boot Android guest images inside a VM: kernel, bootloader, init, and Android framework layers

- Harden the virtualization boundary: reduce attack surface, sandbox device backends, and reason about guest-to-host and host-to-guest threat models

- Implement and validate secure boot and chain-of-trust for the VM (measured/verified boot, key management, rollback protection)

- Analyze and mitigate Android VM security issues; contribute to threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability remediation

- Debug across the stack , hypervisor/VMM, guest kernel, and Android userspace , using the appropriate tooling for each layer

- Collaborate with platform, kernel, and security teams to isolate and resolve issues that span hardware, firmware, and software

- Document architecture, security properties, trust boundaries, and design decisions

## Required Qualifications

- Strong systems programming in C/C++ and Rust, including low-level work with memory safety, concurrency, and performance under real constraints

- Hands-on experience with crosvm (or a comparable VMM such as QEMU/rust-vmm/Firecracker): device models, virtio, VM lifecycle, and VMM configuration

- Solid understanding of virtualization and hardware-assisted virtualization (KVM, guest/host memory management, vCPUs, MMIO/IOMMU, virtio transport)

- Android VM security knowledge: guest/host isolation, sandboxing of VMM/device backends, and the guest-to-host attack surface

- Android platform security fundamentals: SELinux/sandboxing, verified boot (AVB/dm-verity), keystore/KeyMint, and the Android trust model

- Secure boot and chain-of-trust: measured vs. verified boot, signing and key management, rollback protection, and root-of-trust concepts

- Comfortable working from specifications, kernel/driver source, and register-level documentation

- Ability to debug low-level systems issues (kernel logs, ftrace/perf, gdb, VMM tracing/logging) across host and guest

- Git proficiency

- Eligibility: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), pVM/protected VMs, or microdroid

- Guest and host Linux kernel development: drivers, virtio backends/frontends, and kernel debugging

- TEE / TrustZone experience and integration with a hardware root of trust

- Bootloader work in the Android ecosystem (U-Boot, ABL, or equivalent) and secure boot bring-up

- Cryptographic key provisioning, attestation, and lifecycle management for VMs and devices

- Familiarity with fuzzing, sandboxing frameworks (seccomp/minijail), and hardening techniques for VMMs

- CI for systems/kernel builds and automated VM image testing

## Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Rust
- crosvm
- virtualization
- Android VM security
- SELinux
- verified boot
- secure boot

### Nice to have
- Android Virtualization Framework (AVF)
- pVM/protected VMs
- microdroid
- Linux kernel development
- TEE / TrustZone
- bootloader work
- cryptographic key provisioning

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