Anduril Industries

Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Discovery

Anduril Industries • $191K — $253K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in production software design and operation.
  • Strong front-end development expertise in TypeScript/React or similar frameworks.
  • Ability to debug across the full tech stack including networking and hardware/software interfaces.
  • Practical experience with Linux and containerized environments.
  • Comfort in collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to create user-friendly designs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for architecture discussions.
  • U.S. security clearance eligible.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with design teams to develop a new UX product for offensive cyber missions.
  • Create a scalable React-based component system for cybersecurity applications.
  • Build user interfaces for various offensive cyber products such as command/control tools and SIGINT analysis.
  • Engage with program teams and customers during real mission deployments.
  • Provide technical leadership and maintain clarity across the software stack.
  • Integrate AI/LLM features to enhance operational effectiveness without sacrificing reliability.
  • Contribute to the core Lattice software platform to extend its value across the company.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package with minimal cost to employees.
  • Support in health, recovery, and future planning.
  • Opportunity for highly competitive equity grants.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Cyber is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of capabilities to enable offensive cyber missions. Cyber is a new business line at Anduril, and relies upon our fleet of autonomous vehicles, the Lattice operating system, mesh networks, and other hardware products to engage in cyber operations at the edge. We design and build novel solutions to deploy cyber capabilities in unconventional or difficult to reach environments.

The new Lattice for Cyber team will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that allow our Cyber products to operate reliably at scale. This is a founding team working from an unusually blank sheet of paper.
ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Engineer in Lattice for Cyber, you will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that our offensive Cyber programs rely on. You will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way.Above all, Anduril engineers on this team are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset - executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes on-time and with high quality. Not only will you build the software, you'll have the opportunity to work with the customer's to deploy it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Work with design teams and cyber subject matter experts to build a brand new UX product that enables US and allied nations to perform offensive cyber missions at scale.
  • Design and build an extensible React-based component system as a foundation for other cyber teams to build upon for their customer's use cases and integrations.
  • Build the UX that powers our offensive cyber products such as command and control, autonomous cyber behavior trees, SIGINT analysis tools, and data exfiltration pipelines.
  • Work directly with program teams and customers as they build real missions on your products.
  • Contribute to technical leadership, design clarity, and long-term maintainability across a growing software stack.
  • Incorporate AI/LLM-enabled workflow features where they improve analyst or operator effectiveness without compromising system reliability.
  • Contribute back to the Lattice software platform core, allowing your products to provide value across the entire company.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software.
  • Strong front-end engineering experience in modern TypeScript/React application development, Angular, Vue.js or similar tools.
  • Ability to debug across the full stack, including logs, networking, interfaces, configuration, and hardware/software boundaries.
  • Practical experience with Linux and containerized deployment.
  • Comfort collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and translating ambiguous requirements into clean user experiences.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reviews and architecture discussions.
  • Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC or the Orange County, CA metro areas.
  • Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time support program teams and customer events.
  • US security clearance eligible
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns, inference workflows, tool orchestration, or model-assisted application features.
  • Track record of technical leadership, productization work, or direct customer interface in complex engineering environments.
  • Prior work delivering into air-gapped or otherwise constrained deployment environments.
  • Hands-on offensive or defensive cyber background.
  • An active U.S. Security clearance.


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
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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