Sr. Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous underwater and surface vehicle subsystems.
- Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, and visualization tooling.
- Use metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state and identify root causes.
- Develop, test, and ship fixes in Rust, C++, Python, Go, or the relevant subsystem language.
- Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before vehicle deployment.
- Distinguish and resolve software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches at the correct system layer.
- Document root causes and fixes, identify recurring subsystem issues and test gaps, and help build on-call and triage runbooks.
- Coordinate with owning teams when the appropriate fix requires subsystem 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.
- Experience with observability tooling comparable to Prometheus/Grafana metrics and Loki/ELK logs.
- Linux and systems fluency, with declarative or immutable operating system experience such as NixOS as a bonus.
- Ability to document technical root causes and fixes clearly.
- Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors; maritime or robotics experience is not required.
- Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
- Robotics middleware, sensor driver, real-time data pipeline, simulation-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, embedded or fleet deployment, CI/CD, on-call, or field-support experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive health and other competitive benefits available at little to no cost.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
- The role requires average travel of 25% or more.
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.