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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Imaging team builds and fields state-of-the-art camera and sensor systems deployed to solve real security challenges, working across the full stack from bare-metal hardware and firmware to networked services and cloud integrations.
The Mission Software Engineer role on the Imaging Interfaces team is not pure product development. You will spend meaningful time keeping fielded systems alive, triaging issues across the full stack, and serving as a technical representative for products in integrations with external teams and customers. The work is varied and sometimes ambiguous—you might spend a morning extending a gRPC service, an afternoon diagnosing a time sync issue on a deployed device over the phone with a field operator, and a week traveling to support a customer integration.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own fielded system success: responsible for health and uptime of deployed imaging systems, triaging and driving resolution when issues arise regardless of root cause (code, firmware, network, or hardware).
- Build and maintain production services: develop and extend modular software services running on edge-compute devices in austere environments, ensuring reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Support field operations: work directly with field operators and non-technical users to diagnose and resolve issues on deployed hardware, communicating clearly under pressure.
- Represent the team externally: serve as subject matter expert in integrations with other products and teams, speaking credibly across the full system stack.
- Maintain end-to-end system understanding: develop broad fluency across hardware, firmware, networking, and software, optimizing how services interact and degrade gracefully.
- Collaborate across teams: plan, build, and test complex functionality alongside firmware, hardware, and platform engineers, working effectively across boundaries.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time for field testing and customer integrations.
Successful engineers in this role close loops (owning problems until resolved), communicate proactively, are comfortable with ambiguity at stack boundaries, and represent the team well externally.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of software development with meaningful production ownership (not just shipping features, but owning system health, uptime, and behavior post-launch)
- Deep proficiency in at least one of C++, TypeScript (Node.js/React), or Python, with ability to work effectively across stack boundaries in a second language (reading, debugging, modifying code outside primary)
- Comfort ramping quickly into unfamiliar languages, tools, and deployment systems
- 3+ years working in Linux-based environments, including hands-on work with bare-metal hardware
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues across system boundaries (networking, services, hardware interaction) without full visibility into every component
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical audiences and field operators
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
PREFERRED:
- Strength with performance-sensitive, real-time, or resource-constrained systems (edge or embedded)
- Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks
- Familiarity with systemd service management and observability practices on Linux
- Familiarity with Nix or NixOS
- Experience supporting fielded or deployed systems, not just development environments
- Experience with imaging, EO/IR, ISR, or command-and-control (C2) systems
