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Anduril Industries

Principal Mission Software Engineer, Robotics - Air Defense

irvine, CA

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Principal Mission Software Engineer, Robotics - Air Defense

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$196,000.00/yr - $294,000.00/yr

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

We're looking for a Principal Mission Software Engineer - Robotics to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Mission Software Engineeron theAir Defenseteam, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. 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 pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, etc.) for the Air Defense Autonomy team

Own feature development and rollout for our products

Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers

Design, evaluate, and implement sensor integrations that support operation by both human and autonomous planning agents.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of C++ (or 6+ years Rust) experience in a Linux development environment

Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.

Thorough knowledge in Linux networking, routing, and service (systemd) management

Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field

Strong technical skills in C++/OOP design patterns, and interface definitions

Experience in multitasking/threading programming

Experience with Linux time sync (chrony,ntp)

Experience with NixOS

Knowledge and experience with control SW

US Salary Range

$196,000 - $294,000 USD

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Mid-Senior level

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Full-time

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Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Defense and Space Manufacturing and Software Development

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