# Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 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.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Haskell
- Rust
- C++
- Go
- TypeScript
- Linux systems administration
- embedded systems
- networking
- applications
- infrastructure

### Nice to have
- electronic warfare systems
- software-defined radio
- RF systems
- Nix/NixOS
- containerized deployments
- distributed systems
- CI/CD pipelines

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