Staff Robotics Software Engineer, CUAS, Omen
Anduril IndustriesResponsibilities
- Own and lead Omen’s counter-UAS autonomy architecture from prototype through fielded software.
- Develop target tracking, perception integration, sensor fusion, intercept guidance, pursuit planning, and fire control software.
- Define and maintain interfaces among payload, vehicle, mission compute, sensors, and command systems, including timing and latency requirements.
- Build closed-loop simulation, plan and conduct flight-test and live-range campaigns, and lead root-cause analysis using field data.
- Own verification, validation, release and configuration control, requirements for SEIT and V&V engineers, and the sustainment path for fielded software.
- Lead multidisciplinary software teams, including hiring and building the team around the system.
Requirements
- 6+ years building software for robotic or autonomous systems, including at least one system carried from concept to field deployment.
- Strong engineering background in robotics, computer science, aerospace, electrical engineering, or a related area.
- Strong Rust or C++ for real-time and embedded systems, plus Python for tools and analysis.
- Deep experience with target tracking and sensor fusion, including state estimation, filtering, data association, and track quality.
- Experience with guidance, motion planning, or control for fast-moving vehicles and associated latency and bandwidth tradeoffs.
- Experience integrating and characterizing perception sensors in software and building closed-loop simulation for algorithm validation.
- Hands-on field-test experience covering planning, instrumentation, and data analysis.
- Experience as technical owner of a safety-critical autonomy system across requirements, architecture, verification, validation, and release.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary software teams, including hiring.
- Familiarity with US Export regulations as applied to weapon-system software.
- Preferred qualifications include fire-control or weapon software, counter-UAS, air-to-air autonomy, pursuit-evasion, reinforcement learning, game-theoretic methods, VTOL or rotorcraft autonomy, gimbal or turret pointing, ballistic solutions, safety standards, real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, ROS 2, DDS, Gazebo, Unreal, AirSim, and Monte Carlo engagement analysis.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Top-tier full-time benefits available at little to no cost to employees.
- Approximately 25% travel is required, with potential surges for test and demonstration events.
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.