Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
The Electronic Warfare (EW) division builds next-generation electronic warfare platforms , hardware-enabled, software-defined systems that are fielded, operational, and scaling fast.
We are standing up a new Mission Software Engineering (MSE) organization within EW to own the full lifecycle of our software from development through deployment, sustainment, and customer success.
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead Mission Software Engineer to build and lead this function from the ground up. This is a foundational leadership role: you will shape the team's technical direction, hire and develop engineers, and personally contribute to the hardest problems.
Responsibilities
- Build and rapidly grow the EW Mission Software Engineering team
- Set the technical direction for mission software , architecture, engineering standards, tooling, and deployment practices
- Personally contribute hands-on engineering work: system debugging, software patching, infrastructure, and integration
- Own the delivery, installation, and sustainment of operational EW systems , from production through field deployment
- Triage field issues, drive root cause analysis, and coordinate rapid fixes across software and hardware teams
- Establish processes for incident response, post-incident review, and preventive engineering
- Partner with operators and customers to understand mission needs, translate them into engineering action, and close the feedback loop between the field and development
- Collaborate with embedded software, applications engineering, and test/QA to ensure mission-critical fixes flow into future releases
- Coordinate with release engineering to qualify and manage builds for field deployment
- Travel up to 30% to support deployments, integration events, and customer engagements
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with meaningful time spent on production systems that can't go down
- 2+ years leading or managing a technical team (hiring, setting direction, driving execution)
- Strong proficiency in at least two of: Haskell, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript
- Experience with Linux systems administration and debugging in production environments
- Demonstrated ability to work across the software stack , embedded systems, networking, applications, infrastructure
- Experience supporting or operating remotely deployed software/hardware systems
- Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers on technical matters
- Track record of operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with electronic warfare systems, software-defined radio, or RF systems
- Experience with Haskell and/or Rust in production environments
- Familiarity with Nix/NixOS for deterministic builds and configuration management
- Experience with containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker) in operational or edge environments
- Experience with distributed systems, system-of-systems architectures, or C2 integration
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release management for safety-critical or mission-critical software
- Prior experience in defense technology, military operations, or similarly high-stakes operational environments
- Experience building a team or engineering function from scratch