Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Simulation (C++)
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build C++ services that federate independent simulators into a shared simulated world with time management, entity ownership, lifecycle management, and state distribution.
- Own protocol encoding and decoding, multicast and unicast transport, and interoperability across simulators from different teams and vendors.
- Build deterministic and reproducible simulation capabilities, including time control, replay, and divergence instrumentation.
- Develop scenario and laydown authoring tools plus searchable, reusable content and resource catalogs.
- Profile and optimize performance, memory allocation, copying, latency, and throughput for simulations with hundreds to thousands of entities.
- Integrate the simulation layer with Go services, gRPC/protobuf APIs, and the team’s web UI.
- Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, write design documents, conduct code reviews, and mentor growing teams.
- Work with internal teams and external customers to onboard simulators, models, and test workflows, and create documentation, reference integrations, and SDKs to reduce future onboarding effort.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep production experience with modern C++17 or newer, including ownership and lifetime, move semantics, templates, and the standard library.
- Experience building networked, concurrent, or real-time C++ systems with multithreading, synchronization, and failure-mode analysis.
- Strong systems fundamentals including memory layout, allocation behavior, cache effects, sockets, UDP/TCP, serialization, and Linux.
- Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize production systems and reason quantitatively about latency and throughput.
- Experience owning ambiguous, cross-cutting projects end-to-end and driving them to production.
- Experience working directly with engineering teams that consume software you build, including integration, unblocking, and feedback-driven iteration.
- Ability to work in at least one additional language alongside C++; the surrounding platform uses Go and TypeScript.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to write evaluable design documents.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience includes distributed simulation and interoperability standards such as DIS, IEEE 1278, HLA/RTI, IEEE 1516, or TENA.
- Preferred experience includes simulation engines, physics or flight dynamics models, game engines, discrete-event or time-stepped simulation, software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop systems, robotics simulation, or synthetic environments.
- Preferred experience includes deterministic distributed systems, logical clocks, lockstep execution, record and replay, gRPC/protobuf, binary protocols, schema evolution, Kubernetes, Bazel, Buck, Nix, KubeVirt, qemu, GPU programming, rendering, geospatial or terrain data, developer tooling, or platform products.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive competitive benefits available at little to no cost, with additional equity grants 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.