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Salary: USD 220,000 - 292,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology. The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fight alongside crewed combat aviation. This role is based at Anduril's Costa Mesa headquarters.
As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer on the Thunder team, you will own mission autonomy systems and services deployed to customers. You will be responsible for solving complex problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and perception while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Your work ensures Anduril products seamlessly integrate to achieve critical outcomes, requiring strong systems-level knowledge and experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning mission autonomy systems and services deployed to customers
- Writing code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers
- Collaborating across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
- Creating and analyzing metrics for debugging and monitoring
- Triaging issues, root-causing failures, and coordinating next steps
- Partnering with end-users to translate needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
- Traveling up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in real-world environments
This role requires 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.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong engineering background from industry or school in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- 7+ years of professional industry experience with C++ or Rust programming languages
- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
- Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact
- Willingness to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations
- Active Secret Clearance required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong background in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation and physical systems
- Experience developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
- Feature and algorithm development with understanding of behavior trees
- Experience developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety-critical functionality
