Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer -

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are looking for a founding Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer to architect, build, and scale the end-to-end machine learning platform that powers Anduril's autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect the ML Platform: Design, build, and maintain our foundational training, orchestration, and experimentation infrastructure to support state-of-the-art model development.
• Optimize AI Researcher Velocity: Actively identify, measure, and eliminate bottlenecks in the ML research lifecycle.
• Build highly automated tools for hyperparameter tuning, model profiling, and experimentation tracking.
• Build Data Pipelines at Scale: Design and scale robust, high-performance ETL pipelines capable of processing terabytes of multi-modal data.
• Deploy Model Serving Infrastructure: Architect high-throughput, low-latency model serving frameworks optimized for both scalable cloud environments and air-gapped, resource-constrained tactical edge environments.
• Implement Evaluation & Alignment Loops: Build robust, automated pipelines for continuous evaluation, model validation, and reinforcement learning alignment loops.

Requirements

• Production Infrastructure Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating production-scale machine learning systems and platforms (MLOps).
• Strong Programming & Systems Design: Proficient in Python, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
• GPU & Compute Orchestration: Deep experience with containerized deployments, GPU scheduling/orchestration, and distributed training frameworks.
• Data Architecture: Hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines and managing massive datasets.
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Experience setting technical direction, leading complex system migrations, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Clearance Eligibility: Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $220,000-$292,000 USD
• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees