Applied LLM Systems Engineer
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.
- Design orchestration for multi-step workflows coordinating models, tools, and deterministic services.
- Optimize context management, token usage, caching, workflow design, cost, latency, and task success.
- Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems interacting with enterprise content, source control, issue tracking, and documentation systems.
- Design evaluation frameworks and regression testing for prompts, models, tools, retrieval pipelines, and end-to-end workflows.
- Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes for AI-assisted workflows.
- Collaborate with technical writers, illustrators, engineers, and documentation leadership to identify effective AI applications and appropriate human-review points.
- Preserve provenance across source material, generated output, validation results, and human decisions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production services.
- Direct experience delivering at least one production AI system with measurable adoption by its intended users.
- Experience optimizing cost, latency, and context usage in production LLM or workflow systems.
- Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback, and failure handling for nondeterministic systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern API, data, and service-development practices, including software architecture, security boundaries, identity and access management, and data protection.
- Sound judgment about when probabilistic AI, deterministic software, or human review is appropriate.
- Must be eligible for Secret and higher U.S. security clearance.
- Experience with multi-step orchestration or coordination systems across models, tools, and deterministic services is preferred.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool calling, or other production LLM workflow patterns is preferred.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into desktop or enterprise applications with limited native APIs is preferred.
- Experience in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, robotics, autonomy, aviation, or another regulated environment is preferred.
- Familiarity with technical documentation, structured authoring, content management, S1000D, DITA, MIL-STD-40051, or comparable documentation frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with containerized services, cloud infrastructure, queues, event-driven architectures, or production monitoring is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive competitive benefits available at little to no cost.
- The role includes a stated U.S. base salary range of $191,000–$254,000; equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Pre-employment and randomized substance screening are required as applicable.
- Candidates must be eligible for Secret and higher U.S. security clearance.
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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.