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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 autonomous systems, AI, and sensor fusion technology. The Maritime Division is building next-generation autonomous underwater and surface vessel platforms, including products like Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, and Seabed Sentry, executing billion-dollar contracts while performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) operations.
As a Senior Software Engineer for Flight/Vehicle Management Systems, you will independently drive the delivery of embedded and safety-critical software integrated into autonomous maritime platforms. You will demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership at the major subsystem or system level and contribute as a technical lead to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next-generation autonomous platforms throughout their entire product lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement trusted, safety-critical Flight/Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions, and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces
- Contribute to the design and development of reusable software components across Anduril product lines
- Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS
- Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators
- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop
- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including mentoring Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Experienced and proficient at writing C++/Rust
- Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc)
- Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in design and development of embedded applications in autonomous vehicle software systems
- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software applications
- Experience in developing interfaces to sensors and actuators
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems
- Experience with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar certifications
- Familiarity with navigation and communications systems
- Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
- Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Engineer, such as Staff Software Engineer and/or Software Engineering Manager
