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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 technology. The company's Lattice OS is an AI-powered operating system that converts thousands of data streams into real-time 3D command and control centers. Anduril brings cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking to military systems.
The Air Defense team builds networked sensors and effectors that detect, track, identify, and defeat unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats. This team operates across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success to develop, test, deploy, and sustain the Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.
As a Staff Software Engineer (Software Engineering Lead) on the Air Defense Engineering Team, you will own operational aspects of a large software engineering team and partner with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output while ensuring execution toward business goals.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead software sprints and drive release readiness while maintaining code quality across multiple sprint teams
- Manage development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products and programs
- Mentor a small team of engineers to foster strong development processes and scale future leaders
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to build technologies and processes enabling safe, rapid development and deployment of autonomous systems
- Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team software projects spanning multiple functional teams
- Partner with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams
- Drive, track, and communicate progress of technical deliverables for key programs
- Help define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while ensuring alignment with organizational technical roadmap
- Identify and resolve systemic execution issues requiring broader initiatives
- Identify, resolve, and escalate key cross-team dependencies
- Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary
Requirements:
- Strong engineering background as a Software Engineer and/or Lead/Manager
- Experience with multiple programming languages: C++, Rust, Python, and Golang
- Solid technical aptitude and ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks
- Extensive experience with Agile methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Ability to own, track, and drive execution of sprints and Jira boards
- Strong process and organization skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to describe and figure out the shape of a problem and work through a solution
- Experience running projects and processes with little oversight; ability to unblock themselves
- Highly developed analytical and communication skills
- High grit, proactive, and enthusiastic attitude
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
- Must be able to travel up to 30-50% of the time
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building programs for software deliverables from the ground up
- Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and minimal direction
- Experience rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
- Experience creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders
- Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline
