Software Engineer, Agentic Modeling & Simulation
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build agentic workflows that expose modeling and simulation capabilities through natural language, structured tools, APIs, and operator-facing products.
- Design multi-agent architectures modeling decision-making, adversary responses, operational constraints, and plan tradeoffs.
- Integrate LLM tool use, function calling, retrieval, planning loops, evaluation hooks, and guardrails with simulation and mission-planning systems.
- Build backend services for scenario creation, entity tasking, simulation-state retrieval, course-of-action generation, plan comparison, and real-time analysis.
- Translate ambiguous operational planning workflows into reliable software with warfighters and technical subject-matter experts.
- Improve observability, reproducibility, explainability, and evaluation for agent behavior.
- Learn and apply DoD modeling and simulation concepts, including campaign-level simulation, mission-level simulation, and wargaming workflows.
Requirements
- Strong production software engineering experience building backend services, APIs, platforms, or integrations around complex stateful systems.
- Hands-on experience building AI/ML or LLM-powered software, ideally involving tool or function calling, RAG, structured outputs, agent orchestration, MCP-style interfaces, or model evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language and ability to integrate systems across service boundaries.
- Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
- Ability to work with operators, warfighters, and technical subject-matter experts to convert ambiguous needs into engineering requirements.
- Strong judgment regarding reliability, safety, observability, and debugging for AI systems in high-stakes environments.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include modeling and simulation, physics engines, wargaming, autonomy simulation, operations research, planning systems, agentic production systems, gRPC/protobuf, Kubernetes, distributed systems, observability, secure or air-gapped environments, and defense, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, gaming/simulation, command-and-control, or operational planning experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive competitive benefits are available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
- The posting includes full-time employment and a U.S. salary range of $191,000–$292,000, with equity included in the majority of full-time offers.
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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.