Senior Mission Software Engineer
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle subsystems and determine their true root causes.
- Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, and visualization tooling.
- Use metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state during failures.
- Implement and test fixes in Rust, modern C++, Python, or Go through the standard CI and versioned rollout process.
- Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deployment to real vehicles.
- Distinguish between software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches, and correct issues at the appropriate layer.
- Document root causes and fixes, help develop on-call and triage runbooks, and communicate required subsystem changes to owning teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
- Proficiency sufficient to read and fix code in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
- Experience with systems debugging, logs, metrics, offline reproduction from recorded data, and observability tooling.
- Familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics and Loki/ELK-class logging systems.
- Linux and systems fluency; experience with declarative or immutable operating systems such as NixOS is a bonus.
- Clear technical writing and root-cause communication skills.
- Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors without requiring prior maritime or robotics experience.
- Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
- Robotics middleware, sensor drivers, real-time data pipelines, simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing, embedded or fleet software deployment, and field-support or on-call experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
- Full-time employees may receive competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
- The role requires travel of 25% or more on average.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.