Anduril Industries

Senior Software Engineer, Edge Compute and Communications (Active Clearance)

Anduril Industries$166K — $253K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 4+ years of experience with programming languages like Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript
  • Experience working with Linux or Nix/NixOS
  • Proven experience building software solutions with hardware integrations
  • Demonstrated ability to build scalable solutions on edge infrastructure
  • Passionate about critical software with real-world impact
  • Data driven and focused on customer outcomes
  • Experience using AGILE methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Product Managers and other engineering teams throughout the SDLC process
  • Own software solutions deployed to customers
  • Build scalable systems to enhance mission capabilities
  • Improve products with code development
  • Cross-team collaboration for planning, building, and testing complex functionalities
  • Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring
  • Triage issues and determine root causes while coordinating next steps
  • Engage with end-users to transform needs into features, balancing experience with engineering constraints
  • Travel up to 30% to deploy capabilities in real-world settings
  • Brief executives and high-ranking officials on project progress.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package with minimal cost to employees
  • Support in health and recovery
  • Investment in employee wellbeing and future endeavors.
Full Job Description


ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril Software Engineers in the Connected Warfare (CW) Division build, deploy, integrate, extend, and scale Anduril's software on hardware systems to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers at the tactical edge. As the software engineers closest to customers/end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities.

As a Senior Software Engineeron the ECC Engineeringteam, you will contribute to the creation of new products, features, and solutions to address a wide variety of customer problems involving software, hardware, networking, autonomy/robotics, systems integration, and more. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset-executing in an expedient, scalable, and methodical way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality. You will work on products like the Menace Family of Systems to bring integrated C4 capabilities to the tactical edge.

We are working on cutting edge, complex systems that must deliver critical capability on aggressive timelines to outmatch the pacing threats and empower our customers with commercial style technologies that they can immediately use for defense. We are looking for talented, organized, growth mindset, Software Engineers who appreciate ownership, autonomy, and direct customer engagement when designing, architecting, building and collaborating with our software, hardware, operations, SRE, and business development teams to exceed customer expectations and bring new products and capabilities to market.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • You will work closely with Product Managers, Business Development, and other engineering teams (internal and external), executing on our SDLC process from concept, development, production and fielding.
  • Own areas of the ECC software solution that are deployed to customers
  • Build scalable systems
  • Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
  • Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
  • Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
  • Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
  • Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
  • Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world
  • Brief executives (internal and external) and high ranking officials

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 4+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
  • Experience working with Linux and/or Nix/NixOS.
  • Experience building software solutions involving hardware integrations
  • Experience building scalable solutions on edge infrastructure
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
  • Passionate about working on critical software that has a real-world impact
  • Be data driven and customer outcomes focused
  • Experience using AGILE methodologies and execution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (No minimum requirements, maximum ~5-6 bullet points)
  • Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent degrees
  • Prior military service/contractor experience working with edge computing and tactical networking
  • Experience at technology startups
  • TS/SCI active or eligible


US Salary Range

$166,000-$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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