Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer (Arsenal 2)
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Formulate shipyard production scheduling as a mathematical optimization problem covering precedence, spatial exclusion, resource capacity, qualifications, calendars, shifts, and material availability.
- Own the solver-agnostic scheduling interface and integrate and benchmark commercial and open-source optimization solvers.
- Build fast local-repair and background global-re-solve workflows that respond to factory disruptions and swap in improved schedules.
- Develop schedule-stability objectives, replanning policies, quality benchmarks, bounds, regression tests, and solution observability.
- Research decomposition, metaheuristics, rolling-horizon methods, and non-traditional optimization hardware where appropriate.
- Determine disruption blast radius, scope re-solves, merge results into live schedules, and resolve boundary conflicts.
- Generate recovery work from geometric queries and scheduling logic, and compose scheduled operations into dispatchable manufacturing work orders.
- Write production-quality software with comprehensive tests, participate in reviews and architecture discussions, and support production systems through an on-call rotation.
- Partner with manufacturing engineers, planners, operators, computational geometry engineers, and data engineers to translate factory processes and data into scheduling systems.
- Use AI tooling and automation in development and contribute to team engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production software systems.
- Deep expertise in numerical optimization, including linear programming, mixed-integer linear programming, constraint programming, combinatorial optimization, or metaheuristics.
- Demonstrated ability to formulate real-world problems mathematically and deploy the resulting models in dependable systems.
- Hands-on experience with optimization solvers and libraries such as Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, SCIP, PuLP, CVXPY, or Pyomo.
- Expert proficiency in Python for scientific computing and robust software development, with strong NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas foundations.
- Strong grounding in graph algorithms, constraint satisfaction, and computational complexity analysis.
- Experience with scheduling or resource allocation at a scale where exact methods stop working.
- Experience building reliable systems under operational constraints such as high availability, latency budgets, or degraded inputs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining optimization trade-offs to non-specialist factory planners.
- Advanced degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent depth built in practice.
- U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
- Preferred qualifications include a Ph.D. and scheduling or large-scale optimization publications or production work.
- Preferred experience includes dynamic rescheduling, solver benchmarking without known optima, metaheuristics, decomposition methods, C++ or Rust optimization kernels, large graph representations, manufacturing or OT domains, MES/ERP/PLM/APS systems, GPU or HPC optimization, quantum annealing and QUBO, and shipbuilding or complex discrete manufacturing.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits available at little to no cost, including health and recovery support.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
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.