Senior Mission Software Engineer
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the health, uptime, triage, diagnosis, and resolution of deployed imaging systems across software, firmware, networking, and hardware.
- Develop and extend reliable, observable, maintainable production services for edge-compute devices in austere environments.
- Support field operators and non-technical users by diagnosing and resolving issues on deployed hardware.
- Represent the team as a technical subject matter expert during integrations with external teams, products, and customers.
- Build broad understanding across hardware, firmware, networking, and software to optimize system interactions and graceful degradation.
- Collaborate with firmware, hardware, and platform engineers to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience with meaningful production ownership beyond feature delivery.
- 5+ years working in Linux-based environments, including bare-metal hardware.
- Strong Python and C++ skills with the ability to work effectively in either language.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across networking, services, and hardware interactions without complete system visibility.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical problems to non-technical audiences.
- Willingness to travel approximately 15% for field testing and customer integrations.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
- Preferred: experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks, Linux service management and observability, React/JSX, Nix or NixOS, and fielded or deployed systems.
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and form part of total compensation.
- Approximately 15% travel is expected for field testing and customer integrations.
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.