Anduril Industries

Robotics Software Engineer

Anduril Industries$191K — $253K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years experience in C++ and/or Python
  • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware/sensors: radar, sonar, LIDAR, cameras
  • Knowledge of computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, or machine learning
  • Experience in a senior perception or planning role for robotic systems
  • Proven capability as a technical owner managing stakeholder engagement and design
  • Ability to define robust validation strategies for modules
  • Capacity to mentor junior team members and foster team cohesion

Responsibilities

  • Own customer success through a multi-year software roadmap across teams
  • Leverage engineering teams for rapid capability delivery and architectural evolution
  • Partner with external teams to establish interfacing requirements
  • Lead the design and execution of navigation and situational awareness systems
  • Drive sensor development, perception, and planning algorithms
  • Conduct high-impact work in whole-systems architecture and implementation
  • Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision and machine learning to enhance system capabilities
  • Test and validate algorithms using simulations and real-world data analyses
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for system integration
  • Travel up to 20% to co-locate with teams/clients

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and competitive benefits package with low employee cost
  • Health and recovery support
  • Opportunities for growth and development
  • Inclusive and supportive work environment
  • Potential for equity grants as part of total compensation package
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril's Lattice ecosystem.

ABOUT THE JOB

Robotics Engineers lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated in to our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. This includes systems analysis, sensor selection and integration, perception architecture and implementation, motion planning, health management, behaviour analysis, simulation and test infrastructure, and interfaces with lower- and higher-level systems. We expect Staff Robotics Engineers to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective vehicle autonomy on Anduril's autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams
  • Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
  • Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
  • Lead teams that architect, design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures to deliver safe navigation and effective operation of Anduril's autonomous vehicles
  • Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack
  • Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles
  • Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development.
  • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras
  • Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
  • Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime or space domains
  • Experience with simulation tools and frameworks, such as Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine, for algorithm validation and testing
  • Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems
  • Familiarity with System Engineering concepts


US Salary Range

$191,000-$253,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Learn more about Anduril Industries
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200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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