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Salary: USD 165,000 - 219,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Tactical Recon and Strike (TRS) team develops groundbreaking aerial drone systems including Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius—autonomous systems that are reshaping defense and security.
You will join the TRS Core Infrastructure team, responsible for building the foundational infrastructure to field TRS products. Your charter is to provide the platform that enables teams across Anduril to deploy cutting-edge autonomy and integrate it into easy-to-use products with immediate customer impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and release backend services used during manufacturing and deployment of Anduril products
- Define foundational software architectures, configuration processes, and user experience workflows, working directly with chief engineers, program managers, flight test engineers, and end-user customers
- Work with frontend technologies (TypeScript, React, PySide) and high-performance backend technologies (Golang, Python, Rust)
- Interface with engineers across the entire system stack, from low-level Linux drivers to autonomy algorithms to user interfaces
- Test and evaluate software at multiple rigor levels: simulations, benchtop hardware, and live flight assets
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years working with multiple programming languages (Python, Rust, C++, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience working with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
- Built user interfaces using popular frontend frameworks (React, PySide, etc.)
- Passionate about user experience and streamlined product design
- Intuition for solving complex problems involving multiple first and third-party technologies (simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, networking)
- Collaborative mindset for working with autonomy domain specialists
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Built or invented something (app, website, game, startup)
- Previous experience in engineering settings (startup or startup-like environment, engineering school)
- Professional software development lifecycle experience (version control, CI/CD)
- Deep understanding of computer and network architecture (UDP, TCP, gRPC, REST)
- Experience creating infrastructure for robots or complex embedded devices
- Experience building scalable backend systems with various data storage and processing requirements
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established codebases
- Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (CircleCI, Docker, NixOS, Terraform)
- Experience designing complex software systems and iterating via technical design review
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
- Bias towards rapid delivery and iteration
