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Salary: USD 253,000 - 336,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building advanced autonomous systems for U.S. and allied military capabilities. The Maneuver Dominance team is developing Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to operate alongside crewed combat aviation. This Staff Robotics Software Engineer role focuses on solving the critical challenge of autonomous vehicle perception and planning in contested spectrum environments where antenna real estate is severely constrained.
As a Staff Robotics Engineer, you will lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capabilities integrated into Anduril's autonomous platforms. You will act as a technical lead and extremely senior individual contributor, demonstrating end-to-end outcome ownership across the entire product lifecycle. Your responsibilities include:
- Owning customer success through design and delivery of multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmaps spanning multiple teams
- Leveraging internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond current platform scope
- Partnering with external teams on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
- Leading teams that architect, design, and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems
- Driving development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures
- Performing high-impact individual contributor work in architecture and implementation across the perception and planning stack
- Utilizing advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance vehicle capabilities
- Conducting thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through simulation and real-world data analysis
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams including software, mechanical, and systems engineers
- Traveling to co-locate with end-users and other teams up to 20% of the time
You will own systems analysis, sensor selection and integration, perception architecture and implementation, motion planning, health management, behavior analysis, simulation and test infrastructure, and interfaces with lower- and higher-level systems.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors (radar, sonar, LIDAR, cameras)
- Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
- Experience in a senior perception or planning role for delivery of a robotic system
- Capacity to act as technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules
- Capacity to learn and grow individually while mentoring junior team members effectively and building team cohesion
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with autonomous systems in ground, air, maritime, or space domains
- Experience with simulation tools and frameworks (Gazebo, Unity, Unreal Engine) for algorithm validation and testing
- Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems
- Familiarity with System Engineering concepts
