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Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Gen AI Research Scientist to serve as a founding ML expert on the Air Dominance & Strike team. This highly applied research role (60% applied research/experimentation, 40% hands-on coding) focuses on designing, fine-tuning, and deploying next-generation generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems that power air-dominance platforms and collaborative autonomous behaviors.
You will develop and fine-tune in-house LLMs and multimodal foundation models, applying state-of-the-art post-training alignment techniques (SFT, RLHF, DPO) to maximize capability while minimizing cost and footprint. A key focus is making state-of-the-art LLM models smaller, faster, and smarter for deployment on both offboard systems (complex mission planning, modeling, simulation) and onboard systems—optimizing models to run directly on power- and compute-constrained edge hardware.
As an early member of this initiative, you will have significant autonomy to set technical direction, design data collection strategy across test sites and simulations, and directly influence how multi-agent autonomy is deployed in critical missions. You will work in close coordination with specialist teams including Perception, Motion Planning, Hardware, and Test Engineering to solve some of the hardest problems in autonomous systems.
The role involves building robust evaluation frameworks, implementing model compression and quantization techniques, and ensuring models perform reliably in real-world operational environments. You'll contribute to Lattice for Mission Autonomy, Anduril's premier software platform enabling masses of Fury (unmanned fighter jet), Barracuda (air-breathing cruise missile), and other robotic systems to collaborate across various missions.
