Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$253k - $336k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap spanning multiple teams and drive customer success.
- Lead teams architecting, designing, and implementing safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems.
- Develop sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures for autonomous vehicles.
- Perform hands-on architecture and implementation across the perception and planning stack.
- Apply computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to improve vehicle perception and planning.
- Test and validate perception and planning algorithms using simulation, real-world experiment data, and evolving data-analysis tooling.
- Collaborate with software, mechanical, systems, external, and end-user teams on requirements, interfaces, integration, and testing.
- Own system evolution across requirements definition, roadmap management, design, implementation, sustainment, and support.
- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development.
- Familiarity with autonomous-vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras.
- Knowledge of at least one of computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, or machine learning.
- Experience in a senior perception or planning role delivering a robotic system.
- Ability to act as technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Ability to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and build team cohesion and capacity.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred: experience with autonomous systems in ground, air, maritime, or space domains.
- Preferred: experience with Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine for algorithm validation and testing.
- Preferred: knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems.
- Preferred: familiarity with systems engineering concepts.
Benefits
- US base salary range is $253,000—$336,000; equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Competitive full-time benefits are available at little to no cost to employees.
- The role involves travel of up to 20% of the time.
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.