# Senior Flight Software Engineer

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

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## Description

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will be responsible for developing the embedded software that powers Anduril's aircraft. You will work alongside a team of engineers with a diverse set of backgrounds and skills to design and implement vehicle control systems, develop embedded software for pre-emptible Linux or RTOS applications, and integrate new features and sensors into flight controller software.

The team is enhancing the current Altius VMS to support modularity, clean abstractions, and faster new-aircraft development cycles,laying the groundwork for scalable, reusable flight software across the TRS product line. You will own sections of the flight stack end-to-end , from device drivers and middleware integration to control law implementation, test automation, and flight validation.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives on real-world engineering constraints and wants to see the code they ship fly on mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement vehicle control systems.

- Develop embedded software for pre-emptible Linux or RTOS applications.

- Develop device drivers, protocols, and APIs for aircraft sensors.

- Integrate new features and sensors into flight controller software.

- Integrate guidance and control algorithms with the flight software stack.

- Create Software-In-The-Loop (SITL) and Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) test fixtures and automation.

- Analyze flight test results and iterate quickly on fixes and improvements.

- Support device manufacturing efforts, debugging, and production-level test.

- Support operational aircraft deployments and field troubleshooting.

- Mentor junior engineers and help improve team engineering practices and test infrastructure.

Requirements:

- 4+ years of C++ or Rust programming experience.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- Direct experience with embedded software or other safety-critical systems.

- Background in low-level embedded software architecture, design and development.

- Low-level device driver development experience; familiarity with both microcontrollers and application processors.

- Comfortable with typical embedded systems tools, compilers, debuggers, and IDEs.

- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols such as CAN, CAN FD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, etc.

- Strong debugging skills, comfortable using instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 6+ years of C++ or Rust programming experience creating clean, efficient, and reliable code.

- Strong vehicle systems and avionics design knowledge.

- Experience building flight stacks or working with PX4/ArduPilot or proprietary autopilots.

- Familiarity with control systems, state estimation, and guidance algorithms.

- Bias toward delivery and rapid iteration to discover the right engineering investments.

- Willingness to take calculated risks and full accountability for outcomes.

- Passion for solving real-world problems quickly and effectively.

- Track record of designing, building, and delivering useful software to users , we want to hear war stories!

- Experience with SITL/HITL frameworks, CI for embedded systems, and creating reproducible test environments.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Rust
- Embedded software
- Low-level embedded software architecture
- Device driver development
- Communications busses and protocols
- Debugging skills

### Nice to have
- Clean, efficient, and reliable code
- Vehicle systems and avionics design knowledge
- Flight stack building
- Control systems, state estimation, and guidance algorithms
- Delivery and rapid iteration
- Calculated risks and accountability
- Real-world problem-solving
- Software delivery

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