# Senior GNC Engineer **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Waltham, Massachusetts **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5209039007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c1e722d5-a70 ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We are currently seeking a Senior GNC Engineer to join our Battlespace Awareness Command and Control Software team. **Responsibilities** - Define and influence the direction of a small team within the Command and Control Software organization, leveraging your subject-matter expertise in path planning and route optimization. - Prototype and deploy state-of-the-art algorithms for global and local path planning, trajectory optimization, and multi-agent coordination within command and control systems. - Develop online (real-time) path planning capabilities that replan safely and efficiently as mission conditions, threats, and vehicle states change. - Develop high-performance software for real-time C2 systems, ranging from operator-facing mission planning tools to autonomous tasking and routing services that orchestrate fleets of unmanned platforms. - Design and implement robust planners, search algorithms, and decision-making systems that generate safe, feasible, and optimal routes in dynamic, uncertain, and contested environments. - Analyze system performance using high-fidelity simulations, innovative modeling tools, and rigorous statistical techniques to validate planner behavior across diverse mission scenarios. - Drive customer success by customizing algorithms and software for mission-critical use cases, including collaborative autonomy, asset routing, and obstacle and threat avoidance. - Integrate path planning technologies into the broader command and control software stack and development lifecycle, from requirements definition through testing and optimization. - Translate technical progress into clear, actionable insights for diverse stakeholders, including colleagues, operators, and end-users. **REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS** - 8+ years of experience in algorithm design, software development, and mathematical modeling with programming expertise in C/C++, Python, and MATLAB. - Strong knowledge of path planning techniques, such as graph-based search (A*, D* Lite), sampling-based planners (RRT, RRT*, PRM), and online/real-time replanning approaches. - Demonstrated experience in guidance, navigation, and control (GNC); trajectory optimization and trajectory prediction; and/or the development of predictive models for vehicle dynamics and weapon system effectiveness (e.g., 6-DoF simulation, intercept analysis). - Solid understanding of applied mathematics, including linear algebra, optimization, computational geometry, and graph theory. - Knowledge of vehicle dynamics, kinematic constraints, and control theory as applied to autonomous ground, air, or maritime platforms tasked through C2 systems, including high-speed aerial vehicles. - Familiarity with map representations, terrain reasoning, state estimation, and the efficient handling of large-scale geospatial and environmental data within distributed C2 architectures. - Background in machine learning as applied to planning and decision-making, including reinforcement learning, learned heuristics, and behavior prediction. - Ability to engineer robust, concurrent systems for planning under uncertainty, multi-agent coordination, and operation in complex, dynamic, contested environments. - Demonstrated ability to work across development lifecycles, from prototyping to optimizing production systems. - Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS** - Experience with Rust for high-performance, safety-critical software. - Experience across mixed greenfield/brownfield codebases, including extending an existing planning/routing stack in production. **Benefits** At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. ## Skills ### Required - algorithm design - software development - mathematical modeling - C/C++ - Python - MATLAB - path planning - guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) - trajectory optimization - machine learning ### Nice to have - Rust - mixed greenfield/brownfield codebases --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5209039007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)