Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$166k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous underwater and surface vehicle subsystems.
- Reproduce failures by replaying recorded sensor and mission data through live pipelines and visualization tooling.
- Use service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state when failures occurred.
- Identify whether issues are software bugs, configuration problems, or deployment mismatches and fix them at the correct layer.
- Implement, test, and roll out fixes in the relevant subsystem language through the standard versioned deployment process.
- Validate changes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deploying to real vehicles.
- Document root causes and fixes, identify missing tests, and help create the team’s on-call and triage runbook.
- Coordinate with subsystem-owning teams when fixes require architectural or roadmap changes.
Requirements
- Experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
- Working familiarity with at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
- Systems-debugging experience using logs, metrics, and offline reproduction from recorded data.
- Practical experience with observability tooling comparable to Prometheus/Grafana metrics and Loki/ELK logs.
- Linux and systems fluency.
- Ability to clearly document technical root causes and fixes.
- Willingness to work closely with hardware and sensors, including without prior maritime or robotics experience.
- Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
- Robotics middleware, sensor drivers, real-time data pipelines, simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing, embedded or fleet software deployment, and hardware field-support or on-call experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- The role requires average travel of 25% or more.
- The position includes work with deployed vehicles, hardware, sensors, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
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.