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Salary: USD 191,000 - 253,000 / 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. You will join the Imaging Interfaces team as a Mission Software Engineer in a role that spans the full stack—from bare-metal hardware and firmware to networked services and cloud integrations.
This is not a pure product development role. 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: You are responsible for the health and uptime of deployed imaging systems. When issues arise—whether the root cause is in code, firmware, network, or hardware—you triage, diagnose, and drive resolution.
• Build and maintain production services: Develop and extend modular software services that run on edge-compute devices in austere environments. Services must be reliable, observable, and maintainable by engineers who didn't write them.
• Support field operations: Work directly with field operators and non-technical users to diagnose and resolve issues on deployed hardware. Clear communication under pressure is part of the job.
• Represent the team externally: Serve as a subject matter expert in integrations with other products and teams; sometimes remotely, sometimes on-site. Speak credibly across the full system stack.
• Maintain end-to-end system understanding: Develop broad fluency across hardware, firmware, networking, and software. Apply this knowledge to optimize how services interact and degrade gracefully when components fail.
• Collaborate across teams: Plan, build, and test complex functionality alongside firmware, hardware, and platform engineers. Work effectively across team and organizational boundaries.
Travel expected approximately 15% of the time for field testing and customer integrations.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in software development with meaningful production responsibility—not just shipping features, but owning systems after they ship
• Strong Python and C++ skills. You don't need to be a language expert in both, but you need to be able to work effectively in either
• 5+ years working in Linux-based environments, including bare-metal hardware
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues across system boundaries (networking, services, hardware interaction) without always having full visibility into every component
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical audiences
• Willingness to travel approximately 15% of the time for field testing and customer integrations
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
Preferred:
• Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks
• Familiarity with systems service management and observability practices on Linux
• React/JSX experience; the team has a UI surface and it matters
• Familiarity with Nix or NixOS—uncommon, but genuinely valuable on their stack
• Experience supporting fielded or deployed systems, not just development environments
